Acer aspire freeze while installing grub on ESP

[mbooyzen]

My HDD failed, tried all of the above including the newest posts.(this on mx19.2) and I'm getting nowhere. This is on the acer aspire es15. Is there anybody with new ideas, other than a 4 pound hammer.

[fehlix]

My HDD failed, tried all of the above including the newest posts.(this on mx19.2) and I'm getting nowhere. This is on the acer aspire es15. Is there anybody with new ideas, other than a 4 pound hammer.

Suggest you explain what you have done. And in case as you wrote "HDD failed", you better get a new ssd.

[mbooyzen]

Suggest you explain what you have done. And in case as you wrote "HDD failed", you better get a new ssd.

Sorry yes, I did replace the HDD, booted from a thumb drive. followed my previous steps.
only thing i've noticed is with updating grub it gives me a few warnings, can't remember if i had these before. I will retrace my steps and post a screenshot in a few.
Also tried installing and let the installer install grub, when it froze up i rebooted, reinstalled grub, and did the renaming.
other than that all seemed in order.

I can still boot from the old hdd(goes 'cluck cluck' and is terribly slow), could i maybe try something with its efi files? not sure how this works, is it the same for mx18.3 and 19.2?

Thanks

[JayM]

I can still boot from the old hdd(goes 'cluck cluck' and is terribly slow), could i maybe try something with its efi files? not sure how this works, is it the same for mx18.3 and 19.2?

Ah, the "click click click" of death. I'm surprised you can even access it at all. Usually when they make that noise they're absolute goners. As long as you can still access it, albeit slowly, now's the time to rescue anything on it that's valuable and save it elsewhere.