hardware diagnostic problem - doesn't have a SMART test

My PC HP P6210f office model continues to fail the "SMART Self Test short" and I don't know what this means or what to do about it.  Can anyone help?

Thank you very much!

Jeff

Buy a 3.5 "7200 RPM hard drive 640 GB SATAII 2 TB in quality of any retailer local or online (Best Buy, Fry, Newegg, Buy.com, Staples, Office Depot, etc.) and follow this HP guide titled"adding or replacing a hard drive"to replace the disk. Again, make sure you have a set of HP to reinstall the OS and HP Recovery partition recovery disks.

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