Hello,
I have an HP dv9500t which is a few years old (late 2007) but in otherwise great conidtion. About a year and half ago, I tried booting up my PC only to see the following screen:
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S.M.A.R.T failure predicted on Hard Disk 4: ST9120822AS - (S3)
WARNING: Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may by immeninet.
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Pressing F1 did and does nothing, and since I had no money to fix it at the time, I eventually gave up on it and left it alone for over a year. I am now in college and would really benefit from a laptop at the moment, so here I am trying to get this thing in working order.
As stated before, pressing F1 does NOTHING. I cannot even get to my splash screen. I have no booting CD's and this particular model comes with TWO HDD's, one for storage and the other for backup/OS. When I start up my laptop, I cannot activate system recovery, ect; the only function I can activate is F10 to get to the bios. I have ran a diagnostics tests on the Primary and Secondary drives, and the test status reads as "#1009 - Replace HD"
Excuse my ignorance but does this mean that I have to replace both drives? And if so, I would now find myself in a new dilema because this computer came with no recovery cd (s) and I do not have a copy of the OS (Vista). What should I do? I can manage replacing two HDD's but I cannot purchase a new OS copy. Please help, any suggestions welcomed.
I have an HP dv9500t which is a few years old (late 2007) but in otherwise great conidtion. About a year and half ago, I tried booting up my PC only to see the following screen:
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S.M.A.R.T failure predicted on Hard Disk 4: ST9120822AS - (S3)
WARNING: Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may by immeninet.
===========================================================
Pressing F1 did and does nothing, and since I had no money to fix it at the time, I eventually gave up on it and left it alone for over a year. I am now in college and would really benefit from a laptop at the moment, so here I am trying to get this thing in working order.
As stated before, pressing F1 does NOTHING. I cannot even get to my splash screen. I have no booting CD's and this particular model comes with TWO HDD's, one for storage and the other for backup/OS. When I start up my laptop, I cannot activate system recovery, ect; the only function I can activate is F10 to get to the bios. I have ran a diagnostics tests on the Primary and Secondary drives, and the test status reads as "#1009 - Replace HD"
Excuse my ignorance but does this mean that I have to replace both drives? And if so, I would now find myself in a new dilema because this computer came with no recovery cd (s) and I do not have a copy of the OS (Vista). What should I do? I can manage replacing two HDD's but I cannot purchase a new OS copy. Please help, any suggestions welcomed.