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SMART Failure Predicted
Name: Koby Date: February 13, 2005 at 13:46:58 Pacific OS: XP pro CPU/Ram: 1.8 Ghz 512 meg
Comment:
Every time on start up, there's a message that says "Smart Failure predicted on Hard Disk 0: IBM-DJSA-220-(PM). Warning: Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent." I took it into a repair place and they replaced the hard drive, and now this new HD gives me the same message, so I'm pretty sure they put a used one in and passed it off as new. Now I've run the dos scan disk (the long kind), and XP chkdsk and it keeps saying the drive is fine
Name: ludedude25 Date: February 13, 2005 at 14:45:28 Pacific
Reply:
Well i'd take it back to them if I were you. I wouldn't pay for a service that wasn't repaired properly.
Tell them you don't want a crappy IBM drive.
Get a Western Digital or Segate, mabey Maxtor.
I have at least 8 Western Digital Hard drives and not a bad one yet. I may just be lucky though!
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Response Number 2
Name: Dan Penny Date: February 13, 2005 at 14:52:01 Pacific
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Most hard disk manufacturers provide a drive diagnostic package for their drives. If available, download it, and run it to make the diagnostic floppy. Boot the machine with the floppy you just made with the downloaded file and run the full tests.
Other than that, I agree with Chad on all three counts.
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Response Number 3
Name: Koby Date: February 13, 2005 at 18:27:52 Pacific
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Sony is a dumbass company and doesn't put floppy drives in vaios anymore. So I can't diag anything
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Response Number 4
Name: ddp59 Date: February 13, 2005 at 18:58:24 Pacific
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run it off the hd if program would let you
david
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Response Number 5
Name: setishock Date: February 13, 2005 at 23:14:16 Pacific
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It sure sounds like to me they just formated and reinstalled the same drive. I'm going to assume you have a sony laptop. Open the drive cover and make a small mark on the drive somewhere that's not obvious. Then take it back and demand it be fixed correctly at thier expense. When you get it back check the drive to be sure it's not the same drive. Check the manufactor date on the drive to be sure it's a new drive and not something they had laying around the shop...
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