Summary: I purchased and installed a WD hard drive a couple weeks ago, and ever since, I've been getting the "SMART Failure Predicted on Primary Slave" message...
Summary: 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 ...
Summary: For 4 days straight, on start-up, i've gotten this message.. "Smart failure predicted on primary master. WARNING: Immediately back-up your data and r...
Summary: About a year ago I bought a Maxtor 5T030H3 30 Gig. Harddrive! Recently (about 3 months ago) I started getting an error from S.M.A.R.T. check at the s...
Summary: 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...
Summary: Hello Folks, A short history of the problem first: I have just installed a new Maxtor 30 gig HDD and it will not format into FAT 32. It did format i...
Summary: I get a boot error saying SMART failure predicted blah blah blah. Contact dell cuz your ish is broken. After booting and having it CHKDSK and deleti...
Summary: I came back from a 2 month vacation and booted my comp. All seemed fine until I tried a windows update, machine locked up and I rebooted (as usual whe...
Summary: Hi, i have been getting the message "smart failure has been predicted on hard disk # xxx. back up ur data. press F1 to continue"on my compaq laptop wi...
Summary: Ehh, actually my parents are. Everytime they start up their computer they get the error "SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0:Maxtor 54610H6-(PM). W...
Summary: ok, i have a maxtor 40 gb with 2mb cache drive. My motherboard is an asus p4s8x-x. Now some day while i was installing something it appeared the blue ...
Summary: Alright i've seen posts about the smart failure, and i know where exactly my issue is... but i dont know is how to get it to shut up and tell me how...
Summary: I have a Maxtor 40 GB 7200RPM and it is having SMART failure. No big deal all backed up, however I used the Maxtor software and it said the drive was...
Summary: Hi all i have a Smart notebook and when i boot it up before it goes into the boot sequnce i get this message. Failure predicted on hard disk 0: Hatac...
Summary: Hi Belarc has picked up a smart drive failure - my messages from the XP forum are posted below they tell you all about the problems and what I did to...
Summary: If it's failing, I would remove it. By the age of your PC I am assuming that you are on a IDE bus that is shared by both HDs which could explain the ...
Summary: Hi, My laptop had become sluggish and disk used to make lot of noise recently. And, one day on bootup, I get: "SMART Disk Failure Imminent on Hard Dis...
Summary: Mohammad, S.M.A.R.T. is supposed to let you know of an impending failure of your harddrive. In a nutshell, Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Tec...
Summary: Hey. Nasty problem. I recently took a Maxtor 60GB HD out of one machine and put it in as the primary slave in another. Now when I boot the BIOS detect...
Summary: Hello My previous post “three DVD IDE one HDD IDE?” explains a little background of my situation but is not necessary to read. I have found cable...
Summary: I am trying to install my old ATAPI ZIP drive into my new computer, which has two CD drives (DVD and CDRW), both on the secondary IDE channel. I'd lik...
Summary: I have a Maxtor HD here that When I boot with it in my PC It says the Smart status is BAD backup and replace. But what I don't understand is that I ha...
Summary: Does anybody know of a good source for infomation on SMART hard drive technology? The information I've found is nebulous at best...am I to assume that...
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