Hard drives are cheap enough, provided the problem is truly with the hard drive. You'd enjoy a huge increase in performance if you paired the new hard drive with an SSD for use as a boot drive.
Found out my DELL 537 PC has a HD issue: Error: 0142 HD-1 Status 79. Now my question is: should I get a new HD and run into all the software issues when you replace a HD, EXPECIALLY on a 4year old machine or just buy a new PC??
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February 14th, 2013 09:00
Hi Benchede,
May I know the Operating system installed on your computer?
Did you make any software changes to your computer?
Since when you are facing this issue?
I would suggest you to perform diagnostics to check the hardware functionality.
To run ‘Dell Diagnostics’
You may also check in Safe Mode with Networking:
Please reply if you have any questions.
rdunnill
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February 14th, 2013 10:00
Hard drives are cheap enough, provided the problem is truly with the hard drive. You'd enjoy a huge increase in performance if you paired the new hard drive with an SSD for use as a boot drive.
benchede
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February 14th, 2013 10:00
Found out my DELL 537 PC has a HD issue: Error: 0142 HD-1 Status 79. Now my question is: should I get a new HD and run into all the software issues when you replace a HD, EXPECIALLY on a 4year old machine or just buy a new PC??
Opinions please..
benchede
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February 14th, 2013 12:00
Found that the systems HD is bad or so the error tag says so: error 0142.
Is there software that can repair this or just buy a new HD?
rdunnill
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February 14th, 2013 13:00
If the hard drive is genuinely bad, it must be replaced. Sometimes the real issue is with the power supply. Sometimes.