Q:
I have a HP laptop, recently when system starts, such an error prompt appears “Primary master hard disk fail”, what’s the meaning of this? Does it mean that there’s something wrong with my hard disk?
A:
Failure symptoms:
It always prompts the error message “Primary master hard disk fail” when laptop is starting, press “F1” or other key, then it prompts “DISK BOOTFAIL…..” or some other information, mostly probably there’s something wrong with the hard disk. But probably there’re some other reasons. And probably there are few situations when this error would happen below:
(1) Hard disk is already broken. First of all, you can disassemble this suspected laptop’s hard disk, and then install onto a desktop computer as the second disk, check whether it could read/write normally. If same error prompt appears again, then it means the problem of the disk itself, then you need to change a new one to solve this problem. if there’s no error prompt, then you can check up disk further to seee whether the read/write and partition table are OK. You can also use FDISK command to repair. FDISK command has 3 parameters that you cannot see in help documents, separately are /MBR, /PRI, /EXT, the functions of them are to rewrite main boot record, rewrite DOS basic partition boot record and rewrite DOS extended partition boot record.
(2) If a known good hard disk without any problem is installed on the laptop, but same error prompt still appears, the