Dropped laptop, now games wont run.

[yewtwo]

I recently dropped my laptop (the only computer i have). And after a while i went to play a game of dota. While the game is loading i alt-tabbed to go on to reddit when suddenly the screen froze. There was short bursts of squeaking sounds coming from my laptop. I had to manually shut down the pc since the screen was frozen. I restarted my pc and tried to open dota 2 again, but the same happened. Then i decided to try to play my other games (that i know worked before) and heres what happened.

csgo: i got to the main menu, but when i tried to start a game it crashed. No squeaking noise.
Half-Life 2: Works like before
Half-Life: Worked like before
Half-Life 2 Episode 2: works fine
Bioshock infinite: works fine
Counter-Strike: Source: Works fine
Left 4 Dead 2: works fine
TF2: Same as dota, cant get pass loading screen but no squeaking noise
hearthstone: worked fine
Portal 2: gotten to the menu and when i proceed to load a game, it crashed. No squeeking noise
Smite: launched the client got into a practice game worked for a while then it disconnected me, not sure if its internet issue or hardware.

I thought the squeaking noise was only a one time thing since i didn't see it in any other game. So i relaunched dota and the squeaking noise was there. Also i tested mostly source games since that seems to be the case and it seems only the newer source games are doing this.

My laptop is a 4 years old Toshiba Satellite L755-s5308. All the drivers are up to date(i dont think its a software issue i think it lies in the hardware). I want to know what is the problem and how much to fix it. And if its better to just buy a new computer (laptop or desktop, im not the richest so budget is low). Thank you.

TLDR: Dropped laptop and now some games won't launch. Whats the problem?

[No one.]

.... You dropped it. That's the problem. You probably damaged your Hard Drive.

[Darren]

Try deleting your games (that don't work), and reinstalling them (verifying the game cache could also work). It might put them on different (undamaged parts of the hard drive).

[floof]

Alt-F4

[nestordd]

отнеси в ремонт

[kosmosstik]

:yay:

[kosmosstik]

:yay:

[yewtwo]

I tried alt-f4 to close it and that didn't work, i dont think its the harddrive since only the newer source games are malfunctioning. But i'll try uninstalling and reinstalling

[yewtwo]

if i reformat the pc then will it fix all the hdd problems?

[Psy^_-Duck]

cool

[yewtwo]

i verified dota's cache and now it worked, so it must be a harddrive issue, The squeaking sound is now gone and i think i'll reformat the laptop. Ty for your responses.

[Da25niel]

cool