Dell Inspiron 6000 Notebook "dst cd" Questions

DST error code 1000-1046 is definitely a failing hard drive. ..I am not sure why your laptop is not recognizing a CD in the drive, but you should go into your BIOS settings, and in boot sequence, make

...DST Means: Drive Self Test. What happened here was when your laptop booted the Hard drive does a short self test on itself to make sure its still alright. If your drive is not functioning like it ...

...DST Short Status Test, Error code 1000-0146. Seeing as how I can not get my mouse to respond and therefore am unable to load up the start menu to Run the chkdsk/r command, is there any way of going ...

...DST failed show number 1000-0146...can I fixed this without having to buy a recovery disk..and I do not have a windows cd...can it be fixed without a disk Hi Johnson, I think the best bet would be to ...

...CD Linux from my desktop and try to see if I can boot from the disk and retrieve my files on my laptop. Is this possible since I have DST failure on my laptop. Can the disk override the system and ...

...dst short test fail with an error code 1000-0146. msg unit 0-log contains previos errors. then the next message says no diagnostic partition found. what could this be run win xp boot cd and access ...

...DST SHORT STATUS TEST 1000-0142 error appeared, when i ran the DELL Resources CD Diagnostics (not the windows xp cd) and i tested the HArd drive READ, some sectors had erors...and couldnt repair... I ...

...DST (Drive Self Test) failed. this simply means that the drive is no longer stable. If you are unable to boot to windows or safe mode and this is the error you get you might need to do a low level ...

...DST stands for Drive Self Test, if it fails the test it means your drive is failing. 1. Do you have access to a Windows CD? If so you can try to boot to the recovery console and run chkdsk /r. ...

...DST Short Stats Test-- Test Results: Faill Error Code: 1000-0142 Msg: Unit 4: Drive Self Test Failed Status Bite = 70 Suggests using Diagnostics and Utilities disc to reboot Still doesn't work ...