Sudden Blue screen display on my Dell Inspiron 1545 with MS XP OS-Then I ran diagnostics and got this result- "DST short Test-Failed-Error code-2000-0151 Error message: Hard Drive 1-incorrect staus 3E. Please help fix this problem. Thanks.

try to format ur laptop because that is a hard virus..

Hard drive has bad sectors. Before your replace your hard drive when getting this error, try this- Boot from a Windows XP CD and choose Repair at the first prompt to get the recovery console. Type "chkdsk c: /p/r" at the prompt. Repeat until there are no errors found. Exit and reboot. It worked for me.

What result did you get?

may be your hard drive was crashed

Hi Good day!! try to check your RAM (MEMORY) remove it and clean it.

Code 0146 is hard drive read/write failure.

Replace the hard disk drive

your hard drive has failed, on boot (dell splash screen) press f12 to bring up boot menu, choose diagnostics option, run this and it should confirm hard drive failure on dst short test (drive self test) and give an error code (e.g 2000 - 0142), trust me on this i am a dell field service engineer

DST = Drive Short Test.

Its called 90/90 Diags for hard drive. You need to contact Dell Tech because the hard drive needs to be replaced

The error refers to a bad Hard Drive. You need to call up Dell to have the Hard Drive replaced. Make sure to start contacting a Local Pc Shop to help you back up files from your Hard drive since Dell doesn't cater to backing up of data on any Hard Drive.

Hi,
The short DST test is generally the failure of the HDD,It would giive you code next to it , that would something like 1000-0146,or 1000-0141 etc. Do give that code and I would let you know the exact failure


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mandeep