Hard Drive Failure Messages:

If you attempt to start your computer or access a drive and the computer gives you any of the following messages you most likely have a hard drive hardware failure. If you need to recover data from a failed hard drive please visit our Hard Drive Data Recovery section.

IDE Hard Drive Failure Messages:

• 1701 Fixed disk general POST error
• 1702 Drive/controller time-out error
• 1703 Drive seek error
• 1704 Controller failed
• 1705 Drive sector not found error
• 1706 Write fault error
• 1707 Drive track O error
• 1708 Head select error
• 1709 Error Correction Code (ECC) error
• 1710 Sector buffer overrun
• 1711 Bad address mark
• 1712 Internal controller diagnostics failure
• 1713 Data compare error
• 1714 Drive not ready
• 1715 Track O indicator failure
• 1716 Diagnostics cylinder errors
• 1717 Surface read errors
• 1718 Hard drive type error
• 1720 Bad diagnostics cylinder
• 1726 Data compare error
• 1730 Controller error
• 1731 Controller error
• 1732 Controller error
• 1733 BIOS undefined error return
• 1735 Bad command error
• 1736 Data corrected error
• 1737 Bad track error
• 1738 Bad sector error
• 1739 Bad initialization error
• 1740 Bad sense error
• 1750 Drive verify failure
• 1751 Drive read failure
• 1752 Drive write failure
• 1753 Drive random read test failure
• 1754 Drive seek test failure
• 1755 Controller failure
• 1756 Controller Error Correction Code (ECC) test failure
• 1757 Controller head select failure
• 1780 Seek failure; drive 0
• 1781 Seekfailure; drive 1
• 1782 Controller test failure
• 1790 Diagnostic cylinder read error; drive 0
• 1791 Diagnostic cylinder read error; drive 1

SCSI Hard Drive Failure Messages:

• 096xxxx SCSI adapter with cache (32-bit) errors
• 112xxxx SCSI adapter (16-bit without cache) errors
• 113xxxx System board SCSI adapter (16-bit) errors
• 210xxxx SCSI fixed disk errors