FoxTrot
01-01-2012, 10:12 AM
A friend of mines HP laptop gets this black screen with this error everytime he boots up, hes been having it for the past couple months.
"Smart hard drive detects imminent failure"
Looked online and says to run hard drive quick test through the diagnostics by hitting F10 at boot followed by a full test. Ran both and both said "test passed" but then followed by Smart hard drive detects imminent failure again.
Im going to check later this morning to see if his computers bios is up to date and also run a disk error test in windows to fix all his disk errors and bad sectors.
Ill also check what brand his drive is and run the manufacturers drive test on their site through their software.
Other than that, if that test passes too, is that good enough tessting to confirm that the drive is not dying?
Or is there any other suggestions you have to test a hard drives condition?
Read online that the error can occur from an outdated bios or the laptop getting shock from perhaps contact when the laptop moving. He travels with it all the time, so that does make sense if this is the case.
"Smart hard drive detects imminent failure"
Looked online and says to run hard drive quick test through the diagnostics by hitting F10 at boot followed by a full test. Ran both and both said "test passed" but then followed by Smart hard drive detects imminent failure again.
Im going to check later this morning to see if his computers bios is up to date and also run a disk error test in windows to fix all his disk errors and bad sectors.
Ill also check what brand his drive is and run the manufacturers drive test on their site through their software.
Other than that, if that test passes too, is that good enough tessting to confirm that the drive is not dying?
Or is there any other suggestions you have to test a hard drives condition?
Read online that the error can occur from an outdated bios or the laptop getting shock from perhaps contact when the laptop moving. He travels with it all the time, so that does make sense if this is the case.