303 and 305 diagnostic error codes.

I have problems with a Compaq presario CQ61 421SA that is over 3 years old and little used. She became unresponsive and would hang permanently on the office page. Then he would start only in safe mode and finally he wouldn't even that. I've recovered from the partition recovery 3 times now and got things going again only a relapse to the same problems. I did all sorts of controls of sfc/scannow, scandisk, hard starting, start clean and same BIOS update. Nothing shown or improve. Diagnosis before initializing controls showed two codes 303 and 305, and the newspaper has several inputs in this regard. The computer is currently running OK, but a full diagnosis always generates 305 error even if I got the recovery partition and update everything. I fear that it will start to behave badly shortly after. On my last recovery I tried to set the BIOS to boot from the internal DVD and then put in the first of 3 recovery disks when I bought it first, I created. He doesn't seem to read the disc or start the installation of him so I returned to the recovery partition. I'm hesitant to throw good after bad money until I can be sure to a new hard drive.

Any suggestions/help would be welcome.

Hello

Thanks again for the help.

I have now solved this one. I found that the codes 303 and 305 has got worse when I started also failing the SMART control diagnostics test done from the BIOS. It was a little conclusive evidence of the problem - no hard drive. I replaced with a brand new HARD drive a slightly larger size (500 GB instead of 320), made sure the BIOS was set to boot from the CD Rom, rather than the HARD disk drive and then used disks of 3 installation I had created when the computer was first purchased in order to return to a fully functional State. The disadvantage was that it was in the same condition as it was when first purchased with all more later lost DATA. Outside of time, everything is OK but I had to reinstall updates of security without end etc. to bring myself perfectly up-to-date again. This proves the value of backup files somewhere else or creating an ISO file of the content of the old hard drive before it fails to restore later. As long as you use the original motherboard and the installation discs created first, it seems that these discs will run and restore new hard drive on a new.  Hope this helps someone else.

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