League of legends broke my friends pc-s hard drive

tigerrocks·8/14/2018, 8:33:19 PM·1 votes·1,102 views

I've been playing League of Legends for a while now, and it never broke my pc. I told my friend to download it so him and I could start playing together. All of a sudden when it was downloading it said league crashed. He tried opening it again, but it didn't work. He told me he was going to eat lunch, then 5 minutes later he contacts me and he said that it broke his hard drive. Help please, I don't know what happened. I read some forums and people said that the pc is probably bad and drive is busted. Some soultions were for hp pcs, but my friend has a dell. Please Help.[sg-janna]

3 Comments

MagicFlyingLlama8/14/2018, 8:50:32 PM1 votes

First off, league did not break his hard drive, that is completely impossible. Sometimes HDDs just die, especially cheap ones. They are rather fragile devices compared to non-mechanical drives.

HP and Dell are just brands, the stuff inside has nothing to do with that. A hard drive is a hard drive, they are more or less all the same.

That said, you cant fix a dead drive without special equipment and knowledge. drive-restoration by professionals often costs hundreds of dollars per drive, at the least.

I am quite experienced with hardware and software, i can provide assistance if you can provide as much information as possible, mainly:

Exact model or list of parts in the computer
What happens when the computer is turned on, in detail - how far does it get, what errors does it display, does it make any sounds?
What OS and software is installed, have there been any previous issues with malware?
Has the drive been making any grinding, chirping or clicking noises during operation?

COBRA C0MM4NDER8/14/2018, 11:08:43 PM1 votes

League wouldn't break a drive. ALTHOUGH...malware could lock it up nicely.

HalcyonDweller8/14/2018, 11:23:12 PM1 votes

The drive was probably already on its way out, installing a game just involved using the drive when it needed to not be strained. I highly doubt the game would do anything to the hard drive other than take up space like any other game would.

Sucks that the drive broke though, I feel for your amigo and I hope he had a backup drive with all his important files stored.