hard drive not found

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frank

hi, my dell computer (windows xp) does not recognize hard
drive any longer. i purchased one year ago (warranty just
expired). i ran virus scan, and download windows patch
prior to the problem (my xp copy is clean).

some message from diagnostic test as follows:

DOS ddg-disk 010-072 IDE-disk test drive aborted the
command test. initialization failed (null)

block 23562 flaw in medium or an error in the recorded
data

confidence test fail
msg block 23573 flaw ..

help
 
Whatever test you ran should have some indication of what their messages
mean. What test was it? If it wasn't from the hard drive manufacturer, you
might want to download that and run it and see what comes up.

My guess would be that the hard drive died, and as the warranty is up,
you'll have to buy a new one.
 
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