Hi, when I switch on my laptop the message "1720-sart Hard Drive detects iminent failure (failing Attr:02) app
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It sounds like your hard drive is gonna go into nuclear meltdown! This isnt unusual since 98 percent of home PC users dont have a clue about how their PC works and its capabilities not to mention their insane desire to download "FREE" stuff that is infected to the hilt with malware! When it quits, dont get mad at anyone but yourself! If you are smart, after you pay to get it fixed you mite try the local community college for some basic computer classes!
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New hard drives are so cheap now that I would not even waste my time debugging the problem. Go out and buy a new cheap drive and give it a shot.
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My guess is that you have a problem with your second hard drive. If you have another that you can swap in, that would be a good test. If it is not the second hard drive, it could be problems with a virus or other malware. Do a thorough virus sweep of all your drives and see what's going on.\n\nGood luck!
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just reinstall windows, and if it happens again you have a bad hard drive or controller... \n\nif you try swapping out the controller with a known working control and it happens again, the problem isn't following the control. continue on by trying a different drive of the same type, problem still happens, you know it's not that specific drive.
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Make sure SATA is enabled in the BIOS.  Make sure that the jumper settings on your drives are all right.  Make sure that everything is powered correctly and connected securely.
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Was this a working system or a new system? The first thing I would check is the plugs in the motherboard to see that they are actually plugged in. Check the bios again and make sure the IDE ports are enabled. If you have 2 drives, try unplugging one and see if it reads one drive. Try setting up one drive on the cable that goes to the hard drive. Cables can go bad too.
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Welcome your new friend the B.S.O.D (blue screen of death)\n\nIf the message is saying your HDD is corrupt, then your chances of it working normally is pretty much slim, Your best chance is to re-install your version of Windows...\n\nOr if your using XP, try using the repair function on the disc instead of a full re-install...\n\nhope this helps
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Goto your CONTROL PANEL and select POWER OPTIONS.  Make sure it is set at a level you want, I assume it says to turn off hard disk after 20 mins...Just change that to NEVER.
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The drive is bad. Bring it back before you waste anymore time trying to fix it. I had one go bad like that after it had worked for a while. I took it apart to fix it, but there wasn't anything wrong with it mechanically. Something electronic had gone bad. It's not your install or your software - it's the drive.
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The hard drive is not initializing. Keep trying to reboot, it should wake up and start working. When it does, make a back-up of your files asap, it will probably die on you soon although I've had them keep working like that for years.\n\nGood Luck\n\nMike\n\n===========================
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look at you device manager and if there is a ? question mark beside or inside C drive use the hardware wizard to locate it.if you have a systems check program use it and if all else reboot and see if the icon comes back on screen.if all that fails take in for repair.there are many pc geeks that can get you going in a few minutes if thats the problem but there could be others.prepare to pay some cash or check or use your plastic.
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Hmm, this could be any number of problems.\n\nYour best bet is to get someone experienced to take a little look. They will know what the problem is and how to fix it.\n\nIt doesn't necessarily mean that your hard drive is damaged or needs replacing - It could be something like a damaged partition table (which means you lost your files, but the drive is physically still usable). Or it could be bad sectors, a damaged MBR (easily repaired with 'fdisk /mbr' or anything else.\n\nDon't worry just yet. See what an expert has to say...\n\nJ
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Unfortunately it means that your hard disk is dead. Better take the laptop back to the shop. Data is hardly ever recoverable.
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TRY RE-BOOT WITH DISK ERROR CHECK AND SEE IF THAT HELPS
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It is probably simply a problem with the hard drive, like the computer says. Check to make sure that the connections are all good, and if this does not work, send it back for a replacement.
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I suspect your burner is going bad. Best to take care of it while its still under warrenty. Most burners carry a 1 yr parts warrenty. It could also be simply a bad IDE cable. (That's the cable that connects the mainboard to the drive, used for communication.) \n\nIf its not one of those two - then two other possibilities are viruses which can cause the appearance of hardware failure - and harddrive (HD) problems which can give the appearance of all sorts of problems except the real culprit. \n\nChanging out the IDE cable is simple and fairly cheap (sub-$10) if you do it yourself. Testing your HD is easy and free - albiet time consuming - if you get the free utilities from your hard drive manufacturers website. \n\nAn online virus scan may or may not help you peg the problem if you have a virus. Run a anti-spyware/anti-adware utility while your at it for good measure. AVG is an awsome antivirus program available for free to home users (at their website, type free in the search box). Spy-bot and Ad-aware are two of the top three anti-spyware utilities, and are both available for download free. \n\nAfter that, your looking at needing to test a "known good" drive on your system, to see if its the burner or the computer itself. If its the burner, you should still be under warrenty. If its the system hardware, again, warrenty. However, if its software related, it may well be time for a reformat.
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I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.\nSome RAM/hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in  useful. Try this site, if you can get what is required.