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Easiest diagnostic. Get a flash drive and put a live image on it. Mint. Fedora. Whatever. Boot to the drive. If it works fine, run a long smart test on the drive. Mint and Fedora both have that built in. If the drive looks okay, pull whatever data you can onto another flash drive and reinstall Windows.