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Error Msg: 1000-0142???
Hi,
I have a 600m that is about 1.5 years old. I have a 40GB HDD. I think 5400RPM. It runs XP home. I spilled water on the keyboard about a year ago. Since then after drying for days, my computer has been very sluggish. I also had to buy a new keyboard. The bottom of the LCD screen gets really hot. Everything else works...the screen, CD/DVD burner, etc. Anyway, I did a hard drive diagnostic test today by pressing F12 at startup, and I got this error:
Error Msg 1000-0142
Unit 4: Drive self test failed. Status byte=70.
My computer still works and all, but sometimes I have to install programs a couple times for them to work. Also, sometimes a program will randomly stop working, and I will have to reinstall it. Do you think this happened bc of the water? My real question is...do I need to get a new hard drive, and if so...where should I get one? (other than Dell...I do not feel like paying twice as much)
O yea, I aborted the diagnostic test after that error came up.
I have a 600m that is about 1.5 years old. I have a 40GB HDD. I think 5400RPM. It runs XP home. I spilled water on the keyboard about a year ago. Since then after drying for days, my computer has been very sluggish. I also had to buy a new keyboard. The bottom of the LCD screen gets really hot. Everything else works...the screen, CD/DVD burner, etc. Anyway, I did a hard drive diagnostic test today by pressing F12 at startup, and I got this error:
Error Msg 1000-0142
Unit 4: Drive self test failed. Status byte=70.
My computer still works and all, but sometimes I have to install programs a couple times for them to work. Also, sometimes a program will randomly stop working, and I will have to reinstall it. Do you think this happened bc of the water? My real question is...do I need to get a new hard drive, and if so...where should I get one? (other than Dell...I do not feel like paying twice as much)
O yea, I aborted the diagnostic test after that error came up.
Message Edited by pmeeks1 on 02-15-2006 04:33 PM
- OK, I ran the full test...these are the errors i got:
Error Code 0F00:0244
Msg: Block 5721132: Uncorrectable data error or media is write protected.
I then continued on with the test and got the same error for blocks 5721825, 5723211, 5723904, 5725389, 5726082...so I ended the test.
I then started the test again and with a different HDD test (I forgot the name of it) and got this error:
Error Code 0F00:1A44
Msg: Block 5721132: Uncorrectable data error or media is write protected.
I then started that test at block 5800000 and got the same error at block 5956653.
I ended the test and started the test again at block 6000000 and got the same error at block 8477401. I continued with the test... and got the same error at blocks 31263377 and 31265070. I then ended the test and started it again at block 40000000 and got no errors from then on.
I hope this is not too confusing.
Do you think this happened because of the water??
Also randomly my HDD will start making the weird noise in a repeating pattern...like a cricket kind of. It seems like my computer is slower when it does that. My coimputer has been like this for a year...should I expect my HDD to finally crash some random day?
Thanks Amazing. I saw this same error today.
My wife's Inspiron 5100 has been acting a bit flaky lately. Then today it will not boot - says that a windows system config file is corrupt or missing. I ran the diagnostocs and got this error message. I also ran the built-in diagnostic tools and the "IDE Disk - Read Test" and the "IDE Disk - Verify Test" both failed on a particular block. So far all other tests have been fine. So it looks like this is indeed a hard disk drive issue.
I would backup as much as you can now. Looks like it may be too late for us!
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Posted February 15th, 2006 22:00
it may be prudent to backup all your stuff asap and either get a new hdd or just wait for your present drive to fail.
you can get a new hdd from newegg.com or zipzoomfly.com