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SMART failure predicted on HDD 0...
Name: guru Date: January 15, 2003 at 21:03:30 Pacific OS: win98se CPU/Ram: Amdk6-550/64MB
Comment:
HI I have a HP pavilion 6615 system with 4GB Samsung HDD. When I try to start the system,a message warning comes like this. "SMART failure predicted on Hard Disk 0 : Samsung SV0432A.... Warning: Immediately backup your data & replace your HDD, A failure may be imminent. Press F1 to continue" But when I take it to the technician, no error message is coming.(he is testing in old system probably Pentium1) What should I do? Should I replace the HDD? Plz suggest......
Name: Peter Date: January 15, 2003 at 21:04:51 Pacific
Reply:
I would strongly suggest backing up your data. It may or may not fail but that message is not good. Drive failure is imminent.
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Response Number 2
Name: RedRedRedRed Date: January 15, 2003 at 21:50:47 Pacific
Reply:
I had a similar thing happen on a newer HP. I never did back up my data...
I ended up buying and installing a new HD any ways, before anything serious happened. If it is making noise, or anything else is out of the ordinary, you may want to look into it with much more concern. But, like Peter said, it would be wise to at least back up your files and stuff, asap.
Good luck, Red.
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Response Number 3
Name: Lucky Date: January 15, 2003 at 21:58:34 Pacific
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I had that same message on my computer when i was using a 30 gig HD that had a few bad sectors on it...but it never failed :-]. I would back up anything important though
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Response Number 4
Name: CC Ryder Date: January 16, 2003 at 13:02:27 Pacific
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Sometimes a defrag will cause the eminent failure symtoms to go away. CC Ryder
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Response Number 5
Name: duke Date: January 18, 2003 at 11:26:51 Pacific
Reply:
The error is not coming on the other computer if the other computer does not have SMART....
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