Help me hard disk of Lenovo 3000N100 0768-Dku has problem

I check my hasd disk and see it an Sata disk. But my computer driver it as an Ata drive. And now, when i set up Kaspersky antivirus, it make an problem with physic memory error. I check disk by PC doctor 5, and see smart short self test failure. Please, help me.
Lenovo 0768-DKU

First thing would do is immediately backup your data, starting with the most critical.
SMART is pretty damned dumb, actually.
It tries to guess on when a drive will fail by monitoring the rate at which sectors become unreadable.
Typical scenarios include SMART claiming a drive is about to fail, but the drive humming along for years, and SMART saying nothing while the platters grind themselves to junk.
So...your drive may fail soon - it may not.
You'd feel pretty silly though if it said it was going to fail and you did nothing.
I'm a little confused though by the "physic memory error" you mentioned.
If you actually have a stick of bad ram, all bets are off.
I had a stick turn up bad recently on a system that had been plagued by data corruption, and I *thought* it was either a bad drive or bad controller.
Before ripping it apart and starting to swap parts, I ran memtest86 from an Ubuntu disc, and discovered the bad ram. Swapped it out and the mem problem was gone, and no *further* data corruption occurred.
However, some data damage was already done.
In that instance, I wiped the drive, restored from a known-good image, and carried on.
The problem with bad ram is that a file can easily be damaged in a way that is either undetected, or misdetected.
So....my advise would be to grab a linux disk, boot to it, and run memtest from the menu.
If that fails, power the system down until you can remove/replace the faulty memory.
If there are no memory problems, I would remove and replace the drive, putting the old (faulty) drive into an external usb enclosure for possible data recovery.

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Greetings,
but I can't run disk utility as it isn't even recognizing that I have a hard drive. Where my hard disk is supposed to be, it has the icon and says media. It shows the total capacity as 0 bytes and that it's an unformatted drive.
If disk utility isn't showing a mounted volume like "Macintosh HD" that does suggest an issue with the drive. This could be physical, or something wrong with the format / partition table.
If you weren't maintaining regular backups like with Time Machine then your priority #1 should be to try to get the data off the drive if it is extremely important data. Any repairs you might do be it with Disk Utility or other repair software (Disk Warrior, Drive Genius, Tech Tool Pro, etc.) run the risk of making whatever data is on the drive harder to recover. Repair programs by their nature move data on the drive. If this drive is truly failed, you want to avoid making changes as much as possible so data recovery software / companies have the best chance to get the data off.
Target disk mode would certainly be my next step.
It might also be worthwhile to reset the SMC which will also reset the drive controller, just in case it is not mounting for other reasons: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
If you cannot access the drive in Target disk mode then you have 3 choices:
A. Try repairing using Disk Utility or other program and hope that the repairs are sufficient to get the drive up and running and risk moving some data in the process (which as mentioned above makes data recovery more difficult).
B. Contact a data recovery professional.
_There are many nationwide / worldwide data recovery companies out there. Here are a few examples:
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com
http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/
http://www.totalrecall.com/
C. Use data recovery software to attempt to extract data off the drive.
_Here are a few examples:
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
http://www.macintosh-data-recovery.com/
http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&productsid=1
Long term the question is, is this a physical issue with the computer/drive or a software issue (formatting)?
Completely erasing the drive would be the way to tell. If you attempt to erase the drive and are unable to, this would suggest a physical issue with the drive, its connection to the logic board, or the logic board itself.
If you can erase the drive then this is probably just a software issue. Formatting of the drive broke down for "X" reason. There are many, hard shut downs, power outages, micro power surges, force quitting applications 100 times a day, etc.
Either way, maintaing regular automated backups is our safety net: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
I hope that helps and best of luck to you.

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