MS error msg that hard drive is dying

winchester73 · December 30, 2014, 05:44:03 PM

Quote from: SellieS on December 30, 2014, 04:48:06 PM
micro trend says hard drive is bad.

I'm not familiar with "micro trend" :uhm:

SellieS · December 31, 2014, 05:10:51 AM

It is the page that comes up when I reboot and it has all the information about the bios and questions if you want to run it in safe mode and concludes with the status of the computer-it's a black screen with white text.

plodr · December 31, 2014, 04:50:07 PM

There is a security company called Trend Micro but if you google Micro Trend you get information about a Sri Lankan car.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Trend

SellieS · December 31, 2014, 08:12:00 PM

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Megatrends
will get you there.

Corrine · December 31, 2014, 08:55:21 PM

Diana,

I told you; Winchester73 told you; the results of the tests you ran told you; and whether you call it "micro trend" or American Megatrends, your computer hardware has told you: your hard drive is dying. I am sorry but, as much as we would like to, there is nothing more we can do to help you with this computer.

Not the best way to end the year so let's look forward to a better 2015!

winchester73 · December 31, 2014, 09:31:42 PM

Quote from: SellieS on December 31, 2014, 08:12:00 PM
American_Megatrends

Diana, not to pile on here, but it really helps all of us if we get accurate information. It's hard to offer useful help without it. Frankly, "micro trend" and "American Megatrends" isn't precise enough.

IMO, your computer is on borrowed time. Make sure you continue to back up your important files.

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my computer is running well. It had slowed down and now is working fine.

It likely won't be doing so for an extended period of time :(

SellieS · January 01, 2015, 01:49:22 AM

American MegaTrends is the name. I had to reboot to get the correct name as it only comes up right away at that time. I thought every one got that screen. I scroll thru the updated computer info and it tells me the hard drive is bad.

I am not asking for any more help. I moved on to asking about brands of computers and mice. I got a very good recommendation. This computer was given a death sentence and you told me it could go at any time. I was only giving you an update.
It works well for the time being and everything is backedup. I'm prepared for the end of it. I am done grieving over it. The help Corrine gave me extended the life of it because she removed 1 or 2 viruses and I fixed my mail after Comcast went down. A lot of work to end up this way. I am sorry Corrine and Winchester that you misunderstood. Thanks again.

Corrine · January 01, 2015, 02:49:42 AM

Let us know when you get a new computer, Diana. Happy New Year!

SellieS · January 01, 2015, 07:03:08 AM

Corrine and Winchester,

In an episode of the television series Mash Hawkeye cooks up a scheme to raise money for the orphanage. He talks about how great the new guy is and everyone is convinced they have seen him and agree he is just what the unit needs. So the guy starts receiving checks and Hawkeye passes them to "him." When Frank wonders why he hasn't seen him in a while BJ confides in Frank that it all happened very suddenly and he was dead.

When the dead guy started receiving checks again Hawkeye asked BJ how he explained that to Frank. BJ said it was easy. I just told him he died but lucky for him he got better.

SellieS · January 01, 2015, 07:20:10 AM

My last couple of lines of my story from Mash ended up blank. I gave you a similar "dead then got better " sentence After I gave up on the computer and all of a sudden it lived again. For no good reason I thought you would remember that line out of mash from 50 years ago as people used it a lot in my neck of the woods

Thank you for all you have done and all your patience and I hope next year is better than the last. Diana