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SMART failure predicted - Maxtor HD

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Name: TaraJeanL
Date: January 17, 2003 at 19:21:06 Pacific
Subject: SMART failure predicted - Maxtor HD
OS: Windows 98
CPU/Ram: P3 256
Comment:

About a year ago I bought a Maxtor 5T030H3 30 Gig. Harddrive! Recently (about 3 months ago) I started getting an error from S.M.A.R.T. check at the startup that says "Smart Failure Predicted on Primary Master, Press F2 to continue or F1 to run setup". I physically checked for proper cable connection on the drive and scanned for errors, etc. I don't really feel like this is a harddrive issue! I also went into the bios and disabled the S.M.A.R.T. Drive check. Anybody have any thoughts? Thanks!!
-TJ


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Name: tech-fred
Date: January 17, 2003 at 19:30:20 Pacific
Subject: SMART failure predicted - Maxtor HD
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The SMART messages is saying that there
is probable chance that the drive is going
to fail. I would make sure that my backups
are current and prepare to get a new drive.
Depending upon the implementation when the
amount of errors gets to big the SMART
function may lock you out of the drive.


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