Help. Bought a used pc, and it has fake storage display. Would removing the storage it has and adding new real one fix it? I'm new to the pc world
I bought a used pc. Can't return it I can only attempt to fix. When using the pc it displayed Storage: 2.04TB, graphics card: Radeon RX 580 Series 8gb, installed ram: 16gb, Processor: AMD ryzen 5 3600 6-core. In the about section and in description. And it seemed to work fine. However, it had alot of apps/software and I wanted to delete it. It wasn't really allowing me to do so properly. So I decided to reset the pc and erase everything on the drive and anything on windows. It also claims to be on windows 11. But it kept failing, getting stuck on 62% for hours. I attempted to reboot from bios with a USB that has windows 10 and hopefully go from there. The bios allowed the usb to start the sequence, but then it crashed. Not sure how to describe it but it ended by turning itself off. I tried it 3 times.... opening the pc to see if a loose wire. Google suggestion. I saw the WD Green 240gb Sata ssd solid state drive and wondered where the the rest of the storage was. Math wasn't matching in my head, but math is not specialty neither are pc or electronic sadly. As I tried looking for this mystery storage. I looked at the manuel for the motherboard and I cant find it. So I googled it and there apparently is a thing as hacked fake storage.....T.T
I accept defeat in that aspect. I will try to learn from this. My real concern is if I buy a WD black storage and install it, remove the sata ssd drive, and attempt to usb windows 10 will it fix it? Would it stop the sudden shut off or is it a power issue or over heating as googl might suggest. Any advice, I bought it as a gift for my brother and his birthday is soon. Very soon T.T