Smart hard drive failure

[riceng16]

ERROR CODE: 0TSFXV-8T5A4K-MFPURA-608U03

Randomly was doing work and google chrome kept crashing, decided to restart computer when suddenly it says that my SMART Hard disk error, detecting an imminent  failure. Every time I boot up my laptop I see that screen with that message.

[banhien · Accepted solution]

@riceng16 

Sadly to say: Most of the time the 24 char disk failure id indicates the HDD is failing and it needs to be replaced.. Is it still under warranty ? If NOT, you have to replace yourself then rebuild your machine.

Please use Cloud Recovery tool:

          https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c06162205

Regards.

[riceng16]

Thanks for the reply! Do you know where I could find a hard drive compatible with my laptop, and also is it possible to use hard drives from other PCs?

[banhien]

@riceng16 

The specs of your machine is

       https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c05835485

Basically you can use ANY standard 2.5" SATA HDD's from reputable vendors on market today. My suggestion: you have to change HDD, please spend a bit more to get a 2.5" SSD, they are much cheaper now but will be a lot faster. You can use

    https://www.crucial.com/products/ssd/crucial-mx500-ssd
    https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/860evo/

Or similar from reputable vendors.

Regards.

[riceng16]

I've found a replacement for my hard drive and was wondering if I could replace the hard- drive by myself, my cousin told me that I could possibly fry my computer since I've never done it before.