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Name: blackborn Date: April 7, 2009 at 02:09:03 Pacific OS: Windows XP Product: Compaq / C300 Subcategory: BIOS
Comment:
I got a new error message: SMART Failure Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive, a failure my be imminent.
Name: aegis1 Date: April 7, 2009 at 11:42:13 Pacific
Reply:
Good advice to back up, but you should be doing that already.
Personally I don't trust SMART, and I don't use it. I wouldn't replace the drive just on SMART's say so. Running CHKDSK /R will do a surface check of the drive looking for bad sectors, and you could also download a diagnostic from the hard drive manufacturer's web site, and see what they have to say.
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