Recent content by Missy6874

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    Is my HD completely shot?

    Calgulagator - I assume the post at your hyperlink site is the one that contains PRETEXT" & "Here is the process" Very good post BTW. Anyway, I am pretty new to this so am a bit confused. Where exactly is the BIOS? I always thought it was on the HD but I read somewhere that it is embedded in...
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    Is my HD completely shot?

    I am using an HP Pavilion G7 2314nr which came with Windows 8. I made recovery discs but I lost them. I can get to diagnostics but not into actual Bios (unless I'm missing something.) The Optimized DST passed But both Short and Long DST failed. I have done the hard reset like HP...