jmartin Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 a couple of months ago I picked up a virus on my laptop (hp pavilion zt3200) and it totally crashed so I ended up reformatting and reinstalling everything then after about a weeks time she crashed again and now after the third try I was wondering what the deal is? I keep getting a screen that comes up saying "imminent failure detected press f1 to ignore" and just keeps recycling back to that point. Any suggestions? Do I need to replace the hard drive or something and how does this virus stay in the computer and keep coming back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Could be that after you reinstall your system that you are putting the same virus back in. For instance if you got a virus and it infected a flash drive or similar and you keep re-infecting your computer. I have never seen "imminent failure detected press f1 to ignore" myself.Is it "SMART detected imminent hardware failure, backup all of your data and replace your hard drive. Press F1 to continue." If So....This error usually is caused by physical damage to the hard drive, or thedrive is simply unable to store data in certain areas anymore. It isn'tsomething that is caused by the OS and formatting cannot fix this problem.You can run scandisk or Norton Disk Doctor to check the surface, and I thinkyou will probably find it has bad clusters. Sorry to say that there'sbasically there's probably nothing you can do except replace the hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChadC Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Ditto to Kylethat is not a normal Win os error and would be a bios/hardware error. some laptops (dell) come with a diag disk that is bootable. this oculd test the full system and each sector on the hard drive...not matter what, back up your stuffnow. chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Y Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 My money is on bad RAM... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 "SMART" is generally a program on the BIOS of the harddrive that detects when there are problems with the drive.Kyle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dss LT1 Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Solution = Macintosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Macs are great computers, BUT they use harddrives too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmartin Posted March 14, 2007 Author Share Posted March 14, 2007 I always reinstalled from the back discs in the sealed package that came with the computer and havnt put anything back on but the operating system and drivers and give it a few days and everything works just fine and then slowly it starts slowing here and there and all at once wammo it locks up and each time it happens its harder to get it to recover and this time I cant get it to even try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buccaneer Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Jack, it could be the RAM, but I doubt it. It sounds like the issue is really your HDD getting ready to take the deep six. If its still under warranty, have it looked at, if not, get another HDD. What Anti-virus are you using anyway, just curious. FWIW...AVG Pro is a nice app and not a resource hog like some others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Togo Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Ditto to Kylethat is not a normal Win os error and would be a bios/hardware error. some laptops (dell) come with a diag disk that is bootable. this oculd test the full system and each sector on the hard drive...not matter what, back up your stuffnow. chad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitori...ting_Technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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