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hard disc failure
Name: charlton200 Date: January 30, 2004 at 08:31:53 Pacific OS: me CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
hi. for 2 days now on boot up my screen starts flashing "hard disc failure may be imminent, back up your data now" and then to continue press f1. has anyone any ideas on what i should do. i have not been having any other problems.
Name: 987 Date: January 30, 2004 at 08:53:14 Pacific
Reply:
Backup your data onto something other than the faulty hard drive. Don't wait till it fails completely
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Response Number 2
Name: charlton200 Date: January 30, 2004 at 09:03:09 Pacific
Reply:
i have backed up everthing. but do i wait for the system to pack up or do i have to have a new hard drive . evrthing is working ok exept for this flashing warning.
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Response Number 3
Name: Petit Jean Date: January 30, 2004 at 10:06:43 Pacific
Reply:
You get the message from the SMART feature built into the hard disk and enabled in the bios.You can test the drive with the bootable diagnostic/installation diskette from the manufacturer and check what errors the programs finds and corrective work that can be done on the drive if any by this same program.Good luck.
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Response Number 4
Name: scootr Date: January 30, 2004 at 10:11:04 Pacific
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to get rid of the warning message, boot into the BIOS and turn off the Smart Drive utility (if a available option) then find out what brand of hard drive you have and get the drive checker from that manuf.'s website. The drive checkers will usually tell you if your drive has problems and can sometimes repair the errors found.
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