Pavilion Dv7 running extremely slowly

[Great-Deku-Tree]

Hey revnice1,

The format is 4 blocks of 6. The one you just posted is correct. The original you posted had the T omitted (Failure ID: U4P71-1L877V-QFPJWJ-61UW03). No big though, it happens. 😛

Just to confirm I looked up the Failure ID you just posted. It shows Hard Disk 1 Optimized, which I've never seen before. It seems odd that the status would say failed and include a failure ID but the ID itself indicates the disk is optimized... Quite confusing.

Try running the Extensive test again from a flash drive, if you have one, and see if you get the same results. It should have also run a Long test but didn't which I assume is the result of the Optimized test failing. It's possible the test itself failed and threw a false positive.

I'd hate to have you change the HDD if it's not necessary because this can be quite a monotonous process. (Just went through it myself on a desktop PC).

Let me know the results of the second test. 🙂

[revnice1]

>The original you posted had the T omitted

Ah, sorry about that. 

>that the status would say failed and include a failure ID but the ID itself indicates the disk is optimized

Yes, the disk is definitely not optimized. A virgin Windows install doesn't result in an optimized disk and I took no steps to do that.  Perhaps the portion successfully examined was optimized, then the test encountered the failure? If contiguous blocks were correctly occupied but one of them was a bad block, that could result in confusion. I don't know what the test does or the parameters that define a failure. 

>It should have also run a Long test but didn't which I assume is the result of the Optimized test failing.

The test I ran was the Extensive Test, maybe any failure prevents the test from continuing. After all, why bother?  🙂

[Great-Deku-Tree]

Hey revnice1,

After all, why bother? = My thoughts exactly.

I did some more digging on the UEFI tests and found some information that states any and all errors that generate a failure ID indicate a definite hardware failure.

My opinion: Drive's bricked. 😞

[revnice1]

>My opinion: Drive's bricked.

OK, I think so too. Let's call this one solved.

Thanks for all your help!

rev