Can a virus physically damage a hard drive? Please help

[robertin75]

Hello:

I have a HP Pavillion dv6000 that is full of virus.

It has Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bits and a Fujitsu 320GB hard drive (MHZ2320BH)

The problem is that when I run a self hard drive test from the BIOS it says "Test status: #10009 - Replace Hard Disk".

According to HP support this means a PHYSICAL damage.

But the main question is:

Could the virus caused this physical damage or it sounds more like this problem was already present before the virus infection?

Please find attached a text file with the SMART results

Thanks

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SMART results

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[poehere]

More than likely it is the HDD failing on you. Fujitsu are not the best drives in the world and bad sectors on them are a known fact. You should back up all your data on this drive and change it out if your data is important. I would not try to repair the drive or keep working on it much longer if you have this problem. Get another HDD back up and change out your HDD. That is my best advise to you on this one.

[robertin75]

Fortunately I was able to backup all the files to an external hard drive.

Will buy for sure another hard drive but not from Fujitsu.

Thanks mate

[ppumkin]

dv6000 is not good laptop either- the nvidia gpu tends to stop working... the wirless goes down or it stops cahrging the battery
I have many carcuses of these models and i have made good friends at HP SOuth africa thanks to these fella's haha

Fujitsu is crap.. go Hitachi.

[XanderSholtz]

dv6000 is not good laptop either- the nvidia gpu tends to stop working... the wirless goes down or it stops cahrging the battery

http://www.nvidiasettlement.com/