Win XP Won't Start

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by acktom, Oct 19, 2006.

  1. acktom

    acktom Private First Class

    Laptop crashed. When we try to restart we get a media test failure, then a disk read error. Ran self diagnostic test. The DST Short Test Failed, "Error Code 1000-0146"
    Have we lost our drive?

    Thanks,
    Acktom
     
  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Short answer is yes ....is it a Dell? do you have a 40 pin ide so you can hook it to a different puter and salvage data?
     
  3. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member


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