And was allied with the most populist government in his country before he got there

Yes, that’s true and a bad or undersized power supply also but in my experience it is much more likely to have a bad disk than to have something else fail

I would check the kernel messages (sudo dmesg) and check for errors on the ata bus. If there are it’s most likely the disk that is failling

I’ll ask him. However the account didn’t show up as linked to other devices