Smart Hard Disk Error 301

[Chrizzy2013]

Hello marklester,

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[imanebrahimi]

what is error 301?

[Dunidar]

Hello imanebrahimi

I am sorry to say that the Error 301 is an indication that your Hard Drive has either failed or is about to. I would suggest you follow the instructions on this document here and run the hardware tests to verify a Hard Drive failure.

Good luck. Thank you for posting on the HP Forums.

[imanebrahimi]

what error 301 hard disk?

[imanebrahimi]

yes

[SirGO]

HP 2000 Notebook PC Revived ,stopping at Windows logo then Bluescreen

Diagnostic tools pointed to the HD being bricked

If you are like me and just wanted a running pc again... it is possible without buying new HD.

This how I did it. (Hopefully you can make it out as I am not very good at explaining stuff..)

(YOU WILL LOSE ALL SAVED DATA) I made a bootable flash drive and used copied 'boot' and 'source' files from Win7sp1 .iso (takes 2.8Gb on a 4Gb Flash Drive, 3 files in total) to boot and access CMD. - I repaired BDC and ran CHKDSK. Once I was able to access the recovery partition things worked thierselves out .The error 301 still appears on boot (still working on that... thinkin it has to do with corrupt registry.. ) but the machine starts, runs smooth , and I'm using it right now 🙂 Working on finding a program to repair the registry cause I believe thats where the real issue will be found I've tried suggestions like updating BIOS and running scripts off the HP site and still nada... For now I'm happy its running!

Hopefully theres some MVP here that can decipher all this better for yall

Proof that the HD is ok!

[urnenfelder]

Your happiness is going to end rapidily REPLACE the HD ,there is not corrupt registry. Did you read every post from the HP people , Change it , if not you are going to cry.

Peace out

[Cliviros]

Hi Urnenfelder,

Have you managed to resolve this error?

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[dhk3572]

hp pavllion dm4

[c2bb54]

I have done a test on my computer and everything failed except the memory.  I have a HP DV7 17.3" Notebook that I purchased 12/12/10 with an extended extra 3 year warranty, and of couse that warranty expired this past December so I have no warranty.  I am assuming I will need to put in a new Hard Drive.  This computer has a 640 GB Hard Drive.  Where would be the best place to get a replacement and can I install it myself?