Dead HD??

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rydin4life

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My neighbor brought me his Dell Laptop running XP. Its quite a few years old, but previously working fine. It will not boot up, so I booted into diagnostics and get the following message "DST Short Status Test" Fail. Error Code 1000-04145 Unit 4: Timeout. I'm assuming this means the hd is no good from what I've read online, but thought I'd ask here as well.
 
That means the file system is corrupt and there may be bad sectors on the hard drive.

Try this:
1. Boot the computer with the Windows disc.
2. At the "Welcome to Setup" screen > press R to start the Recovery Console.
3. When prompted type "1". (if you have a multi-boot computer, select the installation you want to repair.)
4. When prompted > enter the Administrator password. If there is no password, just press ENTER.
5. Now you should be in the recovery console.
6. Type chkdsk c: /p /r > press <Enter>.
7. When the disk check is done: Type Exit > press <Enter>.
8. Take the Windows disc out and reboot.
 
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