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Hey, I got a new error message:
SMART Failure Prdicted on Hard Disk 0: WDC WD1000JB-00CRA1-(PM)
WARNING: Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.
Press F1 to ContinueWhat exactly is this saying? The the hard drive is dying / dead? Help! lol
SMART: Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology
Drives equipped with this feature report predicted failures based on threshold values determined by the manufacturer.
Yes, Your hard drive is on it's way out. I would backup and find a new hard drive. This happened to mine also. And it didn't fail fast, it took about two months of booting and receiving this error before it did die.
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Typically means what it says - you have been warned.
Anything at all to do with your earlier (seemingly unresolved) problem??
98% of all statistics are made up
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That's what it's suggesting. Take it's advice and back up everything now. Of course you should have already done regular backups.
But, it might be wrong! So after you have backed up, download a diagnostic from the hard drive manufacturer's web site and run it.
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"What exactly is this saying?"
This:
Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.So, firstly you "backup your data".
You then have three possible options:Replace your HD now as the message says.
Costs money but it's the safest option.Test your HD just in case the message is wrong.
Unlikely but I suppose it's worth a check.
Hang on to see if it fails, keeping your backups updated. If it fails you then put in a new HD. Might mean a bit of a rush around at some stage (not always convenient or cost effective).You need to make a thing called a decision...
Derek.W
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"You need to make a thing called a decision..."
well ya see, i would make a decision and all...if i could get it to boot windows. but i made a post a couple days ago with it telling me Operating System not found and that issue went unresolved which is why i said New Error :)"Anything at all to do with your earlier (seemingly unresolved) problem??"
i'm guessing it has everything to do with my unresolved problem. i can get that to boot to the floppy but if i stick in the restore discs, after the boot screen it just sits with a blank screen and a flashing underscore at the top of the screen. it also trys to read the cd-rom for a while and it does stuff with that, but nothing ever happens. i know i'm prly sounding like i have half a brain ^_^ but today was my first day of work at staples so i got to watch 4 movies for 2 1/2 hrs and then do 16 online tests so after this post i'm off to bed.so if theres anything i can do from DOS then that would rock. i did download a DOS version of the wdigi diagnostic but i haven't gotten it on a floppy yet (and yes, the HD is a western digital). but thanks for the help, and please keep it comin :)
::tim
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Let me be a little clearer - if this is a continuation of the original problem, it would have been better to carry on in that thread, with the people who have been attempting to help so far - rather than abandon all of that effort and start over with little or no background given on the situation.
At one point you were also reporting 'no fixed disks present'
All signs point to a failing drive
98% of all statistics are made up
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Error:
WARNING: Dell’s Disk Monitoring System has detected that drive 1 on the primary EIDE controller is operating outside of normal specifications. It is advisable to immediately back up your data and replace your hard drive by calling your support desk or Dell Computer Corporation.
Translation:
This error message says exactly what the solution to this problem is: Simply back up the hard drive and replace it immediately.
Solution:
The error message’s suggested course of action is what the reader must do, says Anne Camden, a spokesperson for Dell. The message is linked to SMART (self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology), a technology that continuously monitors the health of a hard drive in search of symptoms that may indicate a major problem looming in the distance. Such symptoms include a sudden fluctuation in the distance between the drive head and the platter (suggests an impending head crash) and a gradual increase in the length of time it takes for the drive to spin up (a sign of a malfunctioning motor). SMART’s purpose is to alert you while you still have time to save important data files.“It gives you as much of a runway as possible so you can replace the drive before you lose any data,” Camden says.
Under these circumstances, we must advise you to replace his hard drive as soon as possible. Replacing a hard drive is a relatively pain-free process these days and, if the drive or PC is still under warranty, you may even get a free replacement drive.
If you have this same problem, you might be tempted to disregard the message and continue using the drive. But if you do so, we recommend backing up all important data to a removable storage device, marking the backup with the date, and storing the media in a safe location. You also should perform an incremental backup (a type of backup that consists only of files that have changed since your most recent full backup) once each day, as well as a full backup to another removable storage device once each week. The backups will help minimize data loss when—not if—the drive eventually fails.
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