Dell Error Code 0142 - Hard Drive Faulty

I recently started to do some upgrades to my dell 1720 laptop. Last year i got the latest 320 laptop hard drive available and it was working out pretty good. This year i decided to upgrade a little more. I got an intel 40 gb ssd and upgraded to 4gb of ram. I also got a second hard drive cage so i could run my os and programs off the ssd and keep the 320 for storing media and stuff. Everything on the ssd works perfectly and even the 320 works good wen it does work. But ever since i moved it to the second drive bay, reformatted it and everything and put all my data back onto it, i keep getting error messages every once in a while. It says it has encountered an i/o device error. Im not too sure what this means and i don't know how to fix it. The problem does temporarily fix itself wen i reboot but it only lasts for so long and ive found the second hard drive to be pretty unstable wen working with large files and such. Any help would be greatly appreciated so i can finally get my machine working fully again. Ive been stuck using an external hard drive for most of my files for now so i need to get this fixed.

I just got the smart error when booting 2 days ago on my wd800bb-22jhco 80gb ide drive. I have 2 other 120gb drives but no room to save all my music and movies that are on the failing drive. I am going to be getting a 500gb in a few weeks. What is the best thing i can do to prolong my files till i get a new drive? Would unplugging it help or wouild that cause it to fail faster?

Pc: dell dimension 4400
Os: win xp home
External hard drive: maxtor one touch 250

Bought in march, worked fine until two weeks ago. I turned off my computer for the night, turned it on in the morning and received these messages:

**Not accessible, the parameter is incorrect**
**The request could not be performed because of an i/o device error. **

The drive icon does show, the drivers , etc are all there and windows tells me they are operating fine. I have already spoken with maxtor and they were absolutely of no help. Other than wanting to reformat the hard drive . Which is out of the question. (I have 5 years of work stored in that hd, personal, legal and business) and must find a way to retrieve it. (Will not make personal comments about their support or policies. ) Grrrrrrrr. I have spoken to teckie types and tried several suggestions. None helped so far. I'm desperate, and would appreciate any expertise. And, if someone knows of an inexpensive recovery program. The data is all there, it was not deleted. I simply can not unlock the door.

When vista loads, it gives me a message telling me one of my hard drives need to be checked for consistency. If i let it run, it either freezes, or aborts with some kind of unknown error at some point (happens at different points in the process, randomly). When i finish booting into vista, the hard drive is there, but it needs to be formatted before it can be used. If i keep letting chkdsk run is there a chance it may be able to repair whatever the issue is? It seems to get progressively further, but how far away from completing chkdsk it is, i have no idea. Edit: actually, i'm going download wd lifeguard tools, and see if i can scan the drive first, and see what it tell me. Will update when done.

First i installed my liquid cooling system for the first time and things went well, then later about 6+ months i decided to do a double radiator system (working pretty good with temps) but when i put everything back together, including a new sata 1 tb seagate harddrive. Now i can't boot up at all. It says there is an error coming from the hard drive and now it says there is another error saying it can't boot up because of an unexpected i/o error. Btw my primary harddrive is on a ide cable while i have 2 other hardrives (including my 1 tb) installed. I tried alternating the ports. But nothing is working. Also the error is included when i try to reinstall windows vista.

It was working fine and when i turned it on the screen wouldn't come up. I was finally able to get an error message that said the hard drive needs to be replaced. My hp laptop is only a year old. I want to know how much it would cost also if i could just buy a portable external hard drive for it, if that would help.

Pentium 4 3. 0 ghz
512mb ram
80 gig hitachi hdd
Windows xp home

I get this error- reboot and select proper boot device
Or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key. Last night i was working on this other error where it told me something went wrong run chk disc. So i was doing that last night and i thought i let it finish over night since i was tired but when i woke i got this error and have no clue on what to do. Also i tried to just put the xp cd and i says no hdd found!

What type of hard drive does a dell optiplex gx280 take? What kind of hard drive does it take? Here's the specs:

http://support. Dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx280/en/ug/specs02.htm

And here's a picture: http://www.core.net. Nz/products_pictures/pcdegx280-d.jpg

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I have a dell inspiron 1720 with windows vista on it. Im going to install windows 7. How do i totally wipe the hard drive, erase everything on it?

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I need to replace the hard drive on my dell mobile precision m50. There are instructions at the dell website. The photos are missing, so it is difficult to follow them. In particular, i can't tell where the hard drive screws are. There are 2 panels on the bottom of the computer, one accesses the memory and the other the wireless card. Can anyone help me figure out where the hard drive is?

Just been trying to sort out my friends computer today, it would randomly bsod often, i finally managed to get xp installed fresh by using other parts. After xp was installed i put all of his parts together and everything was great. Then after a reboot i started having problems. Xp loading bar goes about half way bsod's then reboots, it does this everytime. I put one of my cpu's in and works first time everytime, they are both p4's 1 is 3ghz(problem one) and 2nd is a 1. 8ghz. Sumtimes when i press del to get into bios it would reboot and sumtimes it would go into bios. I tried the cpu in my comp and went into bios and the screen started going mish mash showing things it shouldnt. So my question is: do the following indicate a faulty cpu?

1. Bsod and reboots at xp loading screen
2. Bios screen interface shows anomalies
3. Cpu temp only 41-44 degrees

I've been having some trouble with my computer. When i press the power button the only thing that happens is the fans (and the sata devices) turn on. To be more specific, the case fans and the fan on the gpu turn on, while the cpu heat sink fan does not turn on. Actually, occasionally the cpu heat sink fan turns on, but very weakly. In addition to the fans, the motherboard's lights turn on, and the dvd drive (and i think the hard drive) turn on as well. Apart from that, nothing happens, nothing on the monitor, no post, no beeps, nothing. I don't know if this board has a built-in system speaker or not. See normally before the problem, when booting up the fans would spin for a few seconds, and the gpu fan would spin really fast and sound like a jet engine, and then a couple seconds later the system would post. Right now it's only reached the "jet engine" stage, so to speak. A small tidbit that may or may not be relevant is when i turn the thing back off, by hitting the psu switch, it goes off and then maybe 5 seconds later the blue light in the psu flickers for a second despite the switch being off. I know for a fact that the motherboard is not at fault. How? I replaced it, thinking that it was the cause, and now today, having just received the new one, the same problem is happening. Hence me making this thread. I really have no clue now which part i need to replace. I've taken apart and rebuilt the thing countless times so don't ask that. Unfortunately i don't have another computer which is compatible with these parts to individually test them, so i can't do that either. My intuition says it's either the power supply or the processor. But i really can't be sure. Any ideas?

Here's the current specs:

Q6600 quad core
2x2gb mushkin memory
600w ocz power supply
Gigabyte ep45-ud3p motherboard
Evga 8800gt gpu

All of a sudden, it won't detect his hard drive. It's a 250gb wd sata hdd. If i go into the bios, it doesn't list the hard drive in the 4 sata ports, just the dvd drive. By running the on board diagnostic, it doesn't detect the hard drive either. I tried a different port on the board and a different sata cable, neither of which fixed the problem. I can hear the drive spinning up and down over and over again. It doesn't do anything from there. Ideas? Is just the interface of the drive somehow randomly gone bad?

Edit: also, i tried a different sata power connector from the power supply that was powering the dvd drive. That didn't work either.

I have a friend's acer aspire 3100 laptop that was having problems, so i ran memtest86+ on it, and sure enough it showed an error in the ram at the end of the second test, and a slew of errors on a later test. The ram card in the laptop was a 200-pin 512mb ddr2 hynix pc2-4200. The laptop's cpu is an amd mobile sempron 1. 6ghz. There are two ram slots on the laptop, only one was in use by the hynix card. I tested the hynix card in each slot and received the exact same result in the memory test for each slot. The weird thing is i tested the same hynix ram chip in my hp mini 1000 laptop with the bios' memory check utility and the memory check utility that comes with windows 7 and it passed perfectly. I then tested other 200-pin ram cards i had that all pass on my hp mini 1000 on the acer. I have a 1gb samsung pc2-6400 card and a generic pc-5300 1gb ram card. I tested each card individually in each slot, and memtest86+ always showed the exact same problems in the exact same memory addresses no matter which card was in the acer. As an aside, if i try booting windows on the acer, it bsod's before getting to the desktop with any of few errors that are all characteristic of faulty ram (irq not less or equal, pagefault in unpaged area. )

So i have no idea what's causing this. All the symptoms of faulty ram, but the ram is fine, and my next guess would be a bad slot, but both slots show the exact same ram address errors.