Windows 7: Hard disk 301 error

I have Windows 7 Compaq Presario CQ61 and it first happened when I was on Youtube, I left the laptop sitting for a bit, then I come back and the screen was completely black. Everytime I turn it on, I get a message saying Hard Disk 301 and it tells me to run a Hard Disk Test but it failed, and I just bought this laptop recently.

Could it be that one of the reason is that I uninstalled Norton Antivirus and was attacked by a Trojan? (The reason I uninstalled it, the antivirus was already expired and kept getting pop ups.) Is there a way to reformat the disk or something? Because I'm a little bit good at computers but I don't know how to repair a hard drive. Help will be much appreciated. Thanks.


Mike

It would be nice if you told us exactly what hard drive you have. Usually a virus won't cause physical damage to a hard drive. It sounds like the hard drive might be failing. No, age does not matter. It can happen at anytime.

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Now here are some links related to hard disk testing:
Hard drive diagnostics and utilities Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.
latest diagnostic software and utilities from the manufacturer of your hard drive(s).


Conner
Fujitsu
Hitachi
IBM
Maxtor
Quantum
Samsung
Seagate
Toshiba
Western Digital

Hitachi Drive Fitness Test
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/suppor...2_v416_b00.iso
tests SCSI, IDE and SATA drives without overwriting data

Seagate SeaTools
SeaTools | Seagate
Comprehensive, easy-to-use diagnostic tool. Determine condition and examine physical service of a disk drive.

Seagate DiscWizard
DiscWizard | Seagate
Add a new hard drive. Copy all the data and operating system from an old drive to the new one which will be bootable. Partition and format a new drive.

Sorry it's a SMART disk. So is there anyway I can repair it?

Have run the tests Karlsnooks give you?

Sure you can repair it if you have a clean room (not like a room that has been cleaned, but one that has absolutely no contamination it what-so-ever, and has it's environment completely controlled). That is the conditions used when HDD are made and repaired by professionals. Considering how much time and money goes into creating these conditions, it would be much cheaper to buy a new hard drive.

Try running a Linux live cd and see if your files can be accessed.

That is an interesting idea NTFS.

Can you actually boot into Windows? If not an Unbuntu Live CD will let you run the Ubuntu operating system without a working hard drive and may let you access your important files.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

Why use linux, when you can use Vista or Windows 7.

Copy & Paste - in Windows Recovery Console

I have Windows 7 Compaq Presario CQ61 and Everytime I turn it on, I get a message saying Hard Disk 301 error (in dos) and it tells me to run a Hard Disk Test and fail but when i press ESC it goes to normal windows 7 and i can used it as normal way. Please help me to remove this error.