This is the error i was presented with earlier today when i checked my mailbox. An employee had trouble with his computer and told me that the computer hangs and when hes running system diagnostics he gets short DST failed. My first thought was "chkdsk /r". But when i got my hands on the laptop i tried to boot into windows vista. No problems at all until 10 minutes later everything froze just as described in the mail. Ok, so i booted up a Vista CD, ran chkdsk /r. When done i booted into Vista again 10 minutes went by, 20, 1 hour, 3 hours, 6 hours and nothing happen. Ok so nothing is wrong now it seems. I figured i could run the disk self test now without any problems. But the disk self test goes into SHORT DST FAILED even before it has started. The only logical explaination i have for this is that the error is not correct. And i uninstalled a lot of programs on his computer also and shut down a few unknown services that was not supposed to be there. Everything works perfectly, but im still getting SHORT DST FAILED. So im having a luxury problem here. Anyone familiar with this or have any solutions? Maybe the disk is about to crash? Im scratching my head. Any suggestions are much appreciated.
Disk error "Short DST failed"
- Thread starter ohmega86
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Backup immediately - you may/may not get further warnings from the system.
Short DST is usually a "spot check" of the disk. So I'd suspect that a non-essential sector is going bad on you.
Run the long test to see if the drive is dying. Do you want to trust the data to a disk that's in the process of failing?
Short DST is usually a "spot check" of the disk. So I'd suspect that a non-essential sector is going bad on you.
Run the long test to see if the drive is dying. Do you want to trust the data to a disk that's in the process of failing?