Error Hard Disk 1 (301) and Failing Attribute: # B8

[fghadam]

Hello All, 

My desktop is running into this error every time I restart the computer. 

Can you please let me know the root cause of the problem? 

Thanks, 

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Hi

Running the F2 diagnostics may generate a 24 character error code.

Either way I suspect you need to...

MAKE BACKUPS

Make Recovery Media

Replace the Hard Disk.

https://support.hp.com/gb-en/products/identify?q=Hp%20sprout&filter=-1&origin=pdp

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

[fghadam]

Thanks Lil Boy Blue,

I'm able to pass the error and boot the computer with no problem. But something will trigger the problem everytime and I want to know what that could be?! It seems I don't have a hardware issue as windows load well and I ran a reset too! 

Any idea what triggers this?

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Fair Enough.

When I read the error message indicating imminent failure, I reacted to it.

Wrongly as it seems

(https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktops-Archive-Read-Only/Disk-Failure-SATA2-Disk-Attribute-B8/td-p/1...).