-
×InformationNeed Windows 11 help?Check documents on compatibility, FAQs, upgrade information and available fixes.
Windows 11 Support Center. -
-
×InformationNeed Windows 11 help?Check documents on compatibility, FAQs, upgrade information and available fixes.
Windows 11 Support Center. -
- HP Community
- Notebooks
- Notebook Boot and Lockup
- Hard disk Error 3F1 and 3F0

Create an account on the HP Community to personalize your profile and ask a question
06-25-2016 11:16 PM
Hard Disk Error 3F1
I got curious and ran an Hard disk diagnostics,
results are:
SMART: NOT INSTALLED
SHORT DST: NOT INSTALLED
After test i got error code 3F0, same after exiting from the BIOS. Beeping ends in menu of BIOS.
On other PC the disk is workiing. don't know what to do. Please help!
_________________________________________
MODEL: HP PAVILION DV6
SYSTEM: WINDOWS 8.1 PRO 64-BIT
________________________________________
Solved! Go to Solution.
Accepted Solutions
06-27-2016 03:00 AM
Hi @Dawid531!
Usually this failure ID indicates that your HDD has failed and needs to be replaced, or there's an issue with the SATA controller on the board. There's a really great topic about how to troubleshoot this error, so if you want you can take a look:
Hope this helps and let me know how it went. 🙂
Please, Kudo me and choose as Answer if this post helped you! 🙂
06-27-2016 03:00 AM
Hi @Dawid531!
Usually this failure ID indicates that your HDD has failed and needs to be replaced, or there's an issue with the SATA controller on the board. There's a really great topic about how to troubleshoot this error, so if you want you can take a look:
Hope this helps and let me know how it went. 🙂
Please, Kudo me and choose as Answer if this post helped you! 🙂
06-28-2016 08:35 AM
As i wrote,on startup i have 3F1 error, beeping from the hard disk stops after 30 seconds and i get 3F0 error, On hard drive test i get
SMART Check: NOT AVAILABLE
Short DST: NOT AVAILABLE
I Hope for helpful posts.
09-25-2017 04:39 AM
Hi There,
We are experiencing issues with this too. The links included in these posts don't work anymore. We have a few PC's doing the same thing but some times they would work and sometimes we get the error. What did you do with the Sata controller to fix the issue?