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Hard Drive Failure?
Name: xsu Date: October 19, 2002 at 19:24:58 Pacific OS: CPU/Ram:
Comment:
SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0: Primary Master-(PM)
WARNING: Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.
Name: Lawrence Date: October 19, 2002 at 20:00:33 Pacific
Reply:
If it tells you to backup your data, you better do it or it may not come (boot) up again the next time! How old is your hard drive anyway? (Let's hope it's not an IBM!)
Lawrence
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Response Number 2
Name: abatis Date: October 20, 2002 at 06:19:56 Pacific
Reply:
This happened to me with one of my Western Digital HD40's. You should still be able to copy all the data off of the drive. I hooked mine up as a secondary slave and than copied off of it. Once smart tells you it is toast - it is toast.
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