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    Hard disk error 3F1

    Discussion in 'HP' started by katawonga, Sep 12, 2011.

  1. katawonga

    katawonga Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guys,
    I have this odd error that appears at bootup
    Hard Disk Error 3F1. Press f2 for system diagnostics.

    Now when I do diagnostics, I get no errors, everything passes. Plus if I just f2 and then escape, the system goes on to boot with no problem.

    I've failed to find a fix for this. Gonna try downgrading bios from f1.d to previous version to see if that fixes anything.

    In the meantime, your thoughts would be welcome.
     
    katawonga, Sep 12, 2011
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  2. Bobmitch

    Bobmitch Notebook Virtuoso

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    Do your own diagnostic that you can watch. Go to accessories...choose RUN and in the box type CMD. You will get Windows command prompt. There, type CHKDSK /R It will ask you do do a disk check on next reboot...tell it YES and exit. Then reboot the machine. Perhaps there are a few corrupt files...let's see what the report says. Also, in Device manager, what is the hard drive listed? WD, Seagate, ??? You can download the tools from the manufacturer of the disk and check for failing sectors as well
     
    Bobmitch, Sep 12, 2011
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  3. MagusDraco

    MagusDraco Biiiiiiirrrrdmaaaaaaan

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    oh.

    well this sounds familiar. I had this happen with my hard-drive after my computer started locking up randomly. It was failing the short DST (basically hdd was about to die). Try finding a way to figure out what's causing the failure.

    I know the f2 diagnostic can sometimes save a log that'll tell you what actually failed (don't remember where that log appears at, maybe on the hptools partition or maybe on the root of the c drive)

    you may also have to make the system diagnostics page save a log (it may be an option in there somewhere). I don't remember
     
    MagusDraco, Sep 12, 2011
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