Single shot crashes my Satellite R850-169

Hello!
I wonder if someone could help.

Recently, a single shot would break my Toshiba Satellite R850-169 15.6 inches (Intel Core processor i5 - 2410M, 2.3 GHz, RAM 6 GB, 640 GB HARD drive, Bluetooth and Windows7 Home Premium) laptop.

Purchased in June 2011, so he's coming up to three years.
Worked fine until about 4 months ago.

In the past, when I hit the office/computer, I get an error message saying:
"Vibration was detected. The head of hard drive is temporarily moved to a secure partition"or something like that.

Now this message rarely turns on and the computer just hangs.
And I have the Windows 7 Blue crash dump screen/message.

The computer has so far managed to launch again... but I suspect one day soon, it may fail to do so!

Does anyone have an idea what could be the problem?

Is it likely to be a hardware problem? As a wiring loose maybe?
Or maybe it's a software problem?

Thank you very much.

> Now this message rarely turns on and the computer just hangs.

The message usually appears in the case where some shocks have affected the functionality of the HARD drive.
In this case, the HARD drive protection sensor stops the HARD drive and moves the head position.

I guess that your HARD drive is not working properly.
It could be possible that the HARD disk failure causes the system crashes and I guess that the replacement HARD drive would solve your problems of laptop.

Recommend to replace the HARD drive and recover the computer laptop back to factory settings.

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