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    M1210 HDD DST Short Test Fail

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by HokkaidoHillbilly, Mar 30, 2007.

  1. HokkaidoHillbilly

    HokkaidoHillbilly Notebook Geek

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    Hey all,

    In trying to put Ubuntu on my M1210, seems I've run into a bit of an issue.

    According to GParted, 3 of the sectors on my hdd (100GB 7X00rpm) have gone bad. I ran the Dell diagnostics partition and got the following error:

    "DST Short Test: Fail Error 2000-0146"

    From the little bit o' Googling that I've done, I realize this means that the hard drive is dying, but the thing is that I can still boot up in either WinXP or Ubuntu w/o any problems.

    I bought this system in July of last year and have 4 year complete care, so should I just get in touch w/ Dell to replace it or is there something I can do to repair the thing?

    Thanks in advance!



    HH ;)
     
    HokkaidoHillbilly, Mar 30, 2007
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    HokkaidoHillbilly Notebook Geek

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    Bump, and another interesting aspect to this problem.

    Even though I've completely wiped the hard drive, i.e. according to the WinXP boot disk set up I've only got 1 partition w/ 93,958MB, I can still access the diagnostic partition by pressing F12 at boot.

    Huh?

    Anybody have any ideas?

    Thanks!
     
    HokkaidoHillbilly, Mar 30, 2007
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