ZEN EXTRA EAX FREEZES"HARD DISK PROBLEM" AND WON'T RESCUE:HOW I FIX

Well nobody tried to help me so I got on the web.first if you try to paperclip reset and nothing,try this:hold the paperclip(you need both hands) and hold play/pause at the same time and disengage paperclip and you get rescue mode this is how I fixed it once,their are four options:clean disk,reboot and two more.CLEAN DISK AND RE-BOOT ONLY!Because the second option will clean out your library!If that does'nt work and if it says:"hard dri've problem" after trying several times you have to smack it on the palm of your hand and after three smacks it went back to normal!(By the way it fell off the countertop with the protecti've case and that's when this night time nitemare began,milk and cookie insomnia cure!). It just skipped,the hard dri've looks like a little record player and I guess it(like a needle on a record it jumped?)But now it works perfect again. I have "THREE WARRENTY",(TWO YEARS LEFT) but I would lose my 2,800 library if replaced repaired! A chance I did'nt want to take.PLMK if this works,SANSOO..........

A few weeks ago I dropped my Extra and had the same problem, it was now out of warranty so I figured I had a paperweight, so when I ran into this thread I figured I had nothing to lose., and gave it firm whacks on my palm, (the first one didn't work) To my surprise it powered back on, and now seems to work. I transferred new songs to it and it is now charging up again. I admit this has all occurred in the past hour so I don't know how permanent this is, but it does give me hope. I would like to emphasize though that this was a last ditch effort. I had tried going into the recovery mode and got a hard disk problem error so none of the regular options would work.

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After discussing it, and the distance to an authorized repairer he offered on-site repair.
After a lengthy parts delay I was offered an upgrade to a iSight iMac.
The tech narrowed my problem down to a faulty logic board before offering a replacement. He could have been wrong but it seemed logical with all of the same symptoms.
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Toshiba Satellite L650-07U, Hard disk failure and replacement

Hi all,
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At the time of first use I installed Windows 7 64 bit edition, and made Recovery DVDs, and at second time of restore to factory setting I had installed Windows 7 32 bit. I have confusion about recovery DVDs (which is not booting from default DVD-Writer of Laptop), either it has 64 Bit recovery data or 32 bit? Or have both 64 and 32 bit Data.
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This site is for US computers. I doubt you'll get your questions for that Canadian model answered here.
There appear to be two recovery partitions. Maybe one for 32- and one for 64-bit Windows. Or maybe one is for English and the other for French.
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Disk0
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Since then, I have imaged my laptop and run malware/spyware softwares, and it looks like my computer is clean. The laptop device manager said my hard drive is working properly. However the warning keeps pops up. I opened Administrative Event Viewer and found the below warning:
“Log Name: System, Source: Disk, Event ID: 52.
The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.”
EventData
\Device\Harddisk0\DR0
0E00030001000000000000003400048002000000000000000000000000112
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Questions:
Is there a tool I can run to verify that my hard drive is truly bad?
Can any tool further identify where?
Can it be repaired? Reformat? Or I have to replace with a new one?
What options I have if I have to replace with a new one?
What is average cost of it?
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Event ID: 52 - Source: Disk
..the warning keeps pops up.
That's good enough for me. I would replace the disk.
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I have installed Windows 7 64 bit version in my MacBook Pro Retina(13") late 2013 model . It was working fine from last 8 months but recently popup window showing as "Windows detected a hard disk problem" once login. Please check the following image.
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No I think that all drive are really on failure
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1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x001a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   000    Pre-fail Always       -       0
9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       1872
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       762
169 Unknown_Attribute       0x0013   253   253   010    Pre-fail Always       -       4003597393408
173 Unknown_Attribute       0x0036   100   100   100    Old_age   Always   FAILING_NOW 12124890467160
174 Unknown_Attribute       0x0022   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       7469954
175 Program_Fail_Count_Chip 0x0022   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       4989854
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0012   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       31
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   064   064   000    Old_age   Always       -       36 (Min/Max 11/75)
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x001a   200   199   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
240 Unknown_SSD_Attribute   0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
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Windows Detected a hard disk problem Toshiba Satellite L505-S5988

It has been about 2 months since I had my new laptop and first I coudnt get the flash cards to work so I finally fixed that and now everytime I start windows an error message comes up and keeps coming up every 10 minutes saying:
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Post all info about your laptop and version of windows. We are working on it but still do not have the powers to read your mind.

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