You may come across the following error messages when your hard drive becomes damaged:

Fixed disk 0 failure / Failure Fixed Disk 0
Fixed disk 1 failure / Failure Fixed Disk 1
Fixed disk C failure / Failure Fixed Disk C
Fixed disk D failure / Failure Fixed Disk D

- Hard drive is not properly setup in CMOS
- Hard disk drive is not detectable
- Damaged hard disk drive
 
Hard Disk Fail (10), (20), or (80)  - caused by damaged hard drive.
 
Drive not ready   - Disk in the drive is not readable
 
Disk boot failure, insert system Disk and Press Enter   - All boot devices including hard drive are not bootable.
 
Invalid media, track 0 bad or unusable
 
- Format command cannot format the specified disk, OR
- The disk capacity is invalid, OR
- Damaged disk.
 
Invalid media type reading drive C:   - The operating system can not get an access to the bootable information from the hard drive.
 
Invalid / Non System Disk   - Hard disk drive does not have bootable information on it. The disk is damaged or not properly connected.
 
Non-System disk or disk error   - Usually indicates non bootable drive. Caused by unidentified hard drive model, non-formatted hard drive, or hard drive with missing system files.
 
1782 - Disk Controller Failure
 
1720 - Intellisafe Hard Disk Detects Imminent Failure
 
1771 - Primary Disk Port Address Resource Conflict
 
1772 - Primary Disk Port Address Resource Conflict
 
1780 - Disk 0 Failure
 
1781 - Disk 1 Failure
 
1782 - Disk Controller Failure
 
1790 - Disk 0 Failure
 
1791 - Disk 1 Failure
 
Hard Drive Parameter Table or BIOS Error - System Halted
 
HARD DISK INSTALL FAILURE - Cannot find or initialize the drive controller or the drive diagnosis failed
 
Primary master hard disk fail - POST detects an error in the primary master IDE hard drive.
 
Primary slave hard disk fail - POST detects an error in the secondary master IDE hard drive.
 
Secondary master hard disk fail - POST detects an error in the primary slave IDE hard drive.
 
Secondary slave hard disk fail - POST detects an error in the secondary slave IDE hard drive.
 

langly kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 - DriveReady SeekComplete Error
 
langly kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 - Uncorrectable Error
 
1780 - hard disk error at boot
 
1790 - hard disk error at boot
 

Computer stops at verifying dmi pool data... - A serious disk error occurred trying to read/write drive
 
Missing Operating System - getting Bad Sectors, Clusters, and/or Missing Allocations
 
Error #72: DISK-MEDIA ERROR: HARD DRIVE - Your hard disk may be damaged.
 
Error Reading Drive 'C'
Data Error Reading Drive 'C'
Serious Disk Error Writing Drive 'C'
Seek Error - Sector not found