Do NOT hold the key down, just press it over and over.Ģ) Eventually, you will see an HP Startup Menuģ) Press the Function key for testing the hard drive (usually F2) and let it run. If not, to check the drive you have to follow these steps:ġ) Press Esc key repeatedly, several times a second, while rebooting the laptop. If your PC is new enough to support UEFI, you can use these steps to test the hard drive: Chrome, FireFox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera supports this method. The JavaScript close() method is supported by all the major modern browser. Windows Update would have the same problems, as it also writes temporary files to the drive. So we have seen how to close the current window tab using JavaScript close() method. So if ALL of them crash, and pretty much when you first try to go to a site, that implies a drive issue. While these have different vendors and some even use the same code base (e.g., New Edge and Chromium) what they DO have in common is that they write the temporary files to your internal drive as they are downloading the components to each web page. Have you tried all of these: New Edge (which is really Chromium), Chrome, Chromium (NOT the same as Chrome), FireFox, WaterFox, Opera.

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