That is difficult to say, but I would think that if you would do nothing in some months your hard drive may become unbootable.
It is difficult to say, because it is for everyone different. For one it is a week before the drive is unbootable, others can go maybe a year before the hard drive becomes unbootable.
ok will take care of it. Thank you so much for helping me out.
hey when BSOD occurs its showing Kernel data inpage error . I recently observed does that mean anything?
I clicked this while back when it crashed. can you please check if its any of help. sorry for the bad pic
I'll clear a few things up about the meaning of the parameter
If the parameter is either of the following (excluding the F's), it usually means that a I/O error has occured.
- 0xC000000E,
- 0xC000009C,
- 0xC000009D,
- 0xC0000185
An I/O error is caused by certain things, for example
- 0xC000009C > A bad block on the hard drive usually
- 0xC000009D > A bad or loose cable or the disk is not detected by the controller, check the BIOS to see if the disk is present in case of the controller issue
- 0xC0000185 > A bad cable or 2 devices that are trying to use the same IRQ
- 0xC000016A > A bad block on the hard drive
As it is a 0xC0000185 with a Dell laptop, the IRQ issue can be ruled out because a Dell laptop has not enough options in the BIOS to configure IRQ's.
So i still need to change the hard drive, is that what you are saying? Or is there a way we can work with this? I heard that we can separate those bad sectors and we can leave them unused and we can still have a healthy hard disk
In your situation bad sectors isn't the issue. It is the hard drive itself that is failing, a short drive self test failing says that a hard drive is failing.
Oh thansk again mate :)
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