DST short test fail

jameswheatley · 03-21-2009, 09:15 AM

My laptop has recently died on me and the dell website was of no use. Its an Inspiron 6400 and its running vista home premium.

It turns on and starts to boot, but then comes up with a black DOS screen saying : No Bootable Devices F1 to reboot etc.

I ran the PSA diagnostics and it came up with the error
Hard drive DST short test fail
Error code: 0141
msg error code 2000-0141
msg: no drive detected

i checked the hard drive after i took it out and it didn't look damaged.

I'm currently in Iraq so i don't have a Vista CD with me so does anyone have a solution to this problem.

Thanks in advance.

**belfasteddie** · 03-22-2009, 01:37 AM

The message is telling you that some part of the Hard drive surface is flaky. Either replace the drive or create two Partitions and reinstall the Operating system. Which will be somewhat hard considering you don't have the Vista disk.
A consideration is to download a Linux live Cd and run it off the CD drive. i.e Puppy Linux.

jameswheatley · 03-23-2009, 03:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by belfasteddie

The message is telling you that some part of the Hard drive surface is flaky. Either replace the drive or create two Partitions and reinstall the Operating system. Which will be somewhat hard considering you don't have the Vista disk.
A consideration is to download a Linux live Cd and run it off the CD drive. i.e Puppy Linux.

Cheers for that buddy. I'm just gonna have to bite the bullet and buy a new hardrive from the choggies! Thanks again.

03-21-2009, 09:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
jameswheatley Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Vista, Home premium	DST short test fail My laptop has recently died on me and the dell website was of no use. Its an Inspiron 6400 and its running vista home premium. It turns on and starts to boot, but then comes up with a black DOS screen saying : No Bootable Devices F1 to reboot etc. I ran the PSA diagnostics and it came up with the error Hard drive DST short test fail Error code: 0141 msg error code 2000-0141 msg: no drive detected i checked the hard drive after i took it out and it didn't look damaged. I'm currently in Iraq so i don't have a Vista CD with me so does anyone have a solution to this problem. Thanks in advance.

03-22-2009, 01:37 AM	#2 (permalink)
belfasteddie Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Belfast N.I. Posts: 1,551 OS: Puppy Linux 4.12	Re: DST short test fail The message is telling you that some part of the Hard drive surface is flaky. Either replace the drive or create two Partitions and reinstall the Operating system. Which will be somewhat hard considering you don't have the Vista disk. A consideration is to download a Linux live Cd and run it off the CD drive. i.e Puppy Linux.