I've never seen a scenario like the one I have now before. (Ive seen a DST occur when the failure was determined to be the shock-sensor of the drive going bad, so technically all data was fine, but ive also seen DST failures when the motor dies, so cant access any data on the drive unless you pay big s to have it placed in a new. Is my hard drive really dying again? Or is my diagnostic test lying to me? (My last hard drive, which had good cause to fail, also gave me the 0142/0146 error messages, but in that instance Chkdsk found corrupted sectors. Could just be some bad blocks, or could be bad blocks caused by platter going bad, or dozens of other reasons. I restarted my computer (correctly), ran diagnostics again, and recieved this error code, '0146 DST Short Test Fail.' To the best of my knowledge my computer has never been jolted, dropped, has no viruses, and has not been abused in anyway since the new hard drive in April. There it gave me the error code of '0142 DST Short Test Fail.' I ran chkdsk next, to see if I could repair the problem, and chkdsk said I was fine. When it reached the 'Dell' bootup screen, I ran the onboard diagnostics test.

Today I tried to Hibernate my computer and it froze before completing the hibernation. I promptly got the blue screen of death (for the first time), restarted my computer manually, and everything seemed fine. For example, if you use Seagate HDDs, you can download a special program from the official Seagate website. A few days ago, my Seagate Freego external drive was taking forever to disconnect, so I just pulled it out. Short Drive Self Test (20 to 90 seconds long) Drive Information Short Generic Long Generic (progress in 1 increments and may take several hours to complete) When you launch the 'Short Drive Self Test' (DST) most drives will run a thorough diagnostic routine that is built into the hard drives firmware. If, for some reason, you do not trust the results of the DST test, you can choose an alternative option. I don't remember the exact specs, but it's 320G and I've only used about half that. I have a Dell Inspirion 6400 operating on Windows XP with a new (as of four months ago) Seagate SATA hard drive.

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