HDD failure causing shutdown?

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Vague

Limp Gawd
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I have a laptop. It would boot just fine, but after a little bit of typing the machine would shutdown with a pop sound.

I had given up on it, pulled the memory and hard drive as spares.

just plugged in the hard drive via USB adapter and while it does detect it doesn't stay writable for long. I've formatted it, run chkdsk and everything looks fine. After a few minutes though it is not longer readable. THe drive continues to spin though.

Is it possible that a hard drive failure could cause the computer to just turn off so suddenly? I'm used to BSODs, not sudden failure.
 
Yes if the drive causes a problem on the power rail.
Does the drive get hot when open to the air?
 
Can you boot from another external drive or can you try your drive in another PC?
 
Yes, I have connected via USB adapter. It detects and shows up in My computer,but after a few minutes it becomes unreadable, I can see the directory structure but can't open any files. The integrity of the drive is less important ot me. My main concern is if symptoms of the laptop are caused by the hard drive.
 
You didnt answer the questions
Can you boot from ANOTHER external drive?
Can you try the drive in ANOTHER computer?
 
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