I got a notification that my hard disk had a problem and hard to take it for repair or replace it

Hard disk drive problem
The hard disk cannot be accessed

the main PWB and the connector on the
hard disk. Repair or replace if necessary.
Defective hard
disk.
Run U024 (HDD formatting) without turning
the power off to initialize the hard disk.
Replace the hard disk drive and check for
correct operation if the problem is still
detected after initialization.
Defective main
PWB.
Replace the main PWB and check for correct
operation

Hi familiacash2,

This is an impending warning of a failing disk. Your hard drive stands a risk of failing. In order not to lose your files and important documents, including your system files, you have to back them on to any external device. It could be an external hard drive or even another pc. But for your system recovery softwares/files, dont back them on to the recovery partition of your hard drive(you would loose them if the crash occurs). Also back them on to any external device..
To back up your recovery fiels, when the message comes on again, and you have the external device to back on to, connect it to your pc, and click the notification banner at the bottom of your screen prompting you to perform the back up, and allow the system files to back it self onto the external disk.
When you are done with that, format your pc and do a reinstallation. If the message still occurs, then contact your manufacturers, for them to check the disk.

Hope that helped?
Have a wonderful day.

maybe you HDD system is corrupted, try to recover it if your can....

otherwise,back up your important files and format,re-install new system software..

Bad Hard disk means a lot of disk partition is damaged and you will have to do a **** check to see how damaged the disk is for disk check and trying to repair it. the command Chkdsk can repair problems related to bad sectors, lost clusters, cross-linked files, and directory errors. log on with administrator rights and open My Computer then left click and now click down on properties, click on the Tools option and Click Check Now then select both the Automatically fix file system errors and the Scan fro and attempt recovery of bad sectors, click Start and Restart...During Restart allow the scan to take place, it will take some time but it is worth waiting. Another simple way to run the disk check is by entering the command Chkdsk in the command prompt, click start then click Run then type in CMD after the command prompt appears (normally a window with a black classic display) type in the command Chkdsk after check is done enter Chkdsk /f ......(to fix the errors)

> my brother bought an IOMEGA ...

Take it back to where he purchased it, and exercise the warranty to get it replaced, at minimal cost to you.

It appears your hard disk may failing. Back up your data while in safe mode. Then do an in-place operating system repair if you can. But if the hard drive is failing, it will need to be replaced.

Attach an external hard disc and put all your data in it. If the PC came with this OS then hp must have given a rescue disc, use that to boot and follow the instructions on the screen.........sodeep

American Megatrends is telling us our Pri Master Hard disk: S.M.A.R.T. is bad, backup and replace.

By questions and answers from above, is this telling us to replace hard drive?

your seagate is absolutely damage. replace hard disk instead. maybe some repair shop can repair hard disk. Just try ok.

It means that the hard disk SMART monitoring system has detected problems serious enough to warn you of the growing possibility of hard disk failure. Sometimes a drive will last quite awhile after this first notification, but there is a good chance of imminent failure, in minutes, hours, days, or weeks. You should immediately look into installing a replacement drive.

You should immediately copy any important data off the drive, perform full backups, and limit use of it.

If you can install drives yourself, a new hard disk (especially Seagates) usually come with software to clone your existing drive to the new drive. Otherwise, a repair shop will be able to do it for you.

I recommend also purchasing a drive enclosure for your old drive. For whatever life it still has, it will be a good backup of your system.