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Lost 4 working hours when I updated Windows on my laptop... and about an hour more to repair the error on the Office programs after the update.  Good thing that Office only needed the "Quick Repair" to fix that 0xc0000142 error. This is the easiest fix. My Office is working again without that error after running Quick Repair. The Windows update can be unnerving because the screen would go black sometimes or be stuck on a % and you don't know if your computer froze or it's just running in the background. I usually check the "processing" light - if it's blinking, it's still doing something so I leave it; but if it's steady, it probably froze and I need to hard restart.

The fudge! Less than 2 years into buying my HP Pavilion 11" laptop, its hard disk fails! It happened yesterday: It froze around 2 minutes in. I thought the HDMI cable to the monitor was loose. I shut off the laptop and put it on my lap to reach behind the monitor... The base of the laptop was HOT! I tried to boot it a few more times but it would freeze before it can load Windows. F2 during start-up -> Quick System check. All passed except Hard Drive Short DST Check: Failed (screenshot's at the bottom of this post). This HP laptop was pretty expensive for me, too. Sigh. Says I should call HP to know what the failure id/code in red means but, I don't have the energy for this anymore. I need to work. I ordered a new laptop online last night, a different brand at a fraction of what I spent on this HP at the mall less than 2 years ago. I can't get over it - it's not even 2 years yet, I could've bought 2 more new laptops back then; a spare and a spare of the