Hard drive error 03F1 on startup

[Dergyll]

But I passed the BIOs tests, and I passed the seatools tests as wel...

fine fine, Ill buy a new one haha...

[iwampfler]

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@DavidPK wrote:

Hi,

From the symtoms you describe and the fact that the drive failed both the short and long bios test, you can be fairly certain that this is the problem.

Replacing the HDD on your notebook is suprisingly straight forward.

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The Hard Drive on the link below would be a good replacement.

1 Tb Hard Drive - notebook

The process to replace the Hard Drive is detailed starting on Page 48 of your Maintenance & Service Guide.

Once done, simply use your Recovery DVDs to reinstall the Operating System on the new drive.

If you don't have your Recovery Discs, try the link below to see if you can order a replacement.

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c00810334

If you have any problem with the above link, order them directly from HP Here.

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Regards,

DP-K

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You say, "From the symtoms you describe and the fact that the drive failed both the short and long bios test, you can be fairly certain that this is the problem."  The user did not say that the drive failed the short and long test, as you say he said.  He said that the drive passed both tests.

  I have the same issue where the 03F1 error message is only displayed after restart with no keys pressed during restart.  The problem has appeared twice after major Windows 7 updates.  The first time it happened, I did the extensive Norton 360 Security scan and the problem went away until the next major Windows 7 Ultimate update.