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: 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: could be a sign that your second HDD is going south too. easiest way to check... with the sys case open, power up the sys and LISTEN to see if you can...
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: "BTW there is no data on the drive I want. Just wondering if there was anything I could do." You should have mentioned that in the first place. The dr...
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: 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: 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: I just recently purchased a computer program on a CD for my daughter which is supposed to help her vision problems. The files on the CD are visible o...
Summary: It's up to you if you want to use Smart on your drives, I don't but it is a good idea if you want to know if your HD is failing or not. It doesn't mat...
Summary: I don't know how this happened. The last time I checked it all was fine. I had a 10gb hard drive in my old computer but I only upgraded to a new one...
Summary: Ok, i have a DVD RW drive which as worked fine for me until recently. The other day when i tried to use the drive i noticed that it doesn't show up on...
Summary: In my opinion, there is no substitute for a daily backup system, so I think for me, SMART is moot and more of an annoyance...I'm for disabling it. I g...
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: 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 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: 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: Ok i have a Western Digital 20GB and it was pulled from a working PC and i recently formated it and it was sitting on my shelf for abought a month, no...
Summary: Well i got an 80 GB SATA drive for my new Compaq. I figured i would give Vista a go and maybe get used to it. Well i used the recovery CD's that i ord...
Summary: Hey all, Not really sure where else to turn here. Dell PowerEdge 2300 had NT, upgraded to Server 2003. Worked fine after install, then reboot said S...
Summary: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone can help since I run out of ideas..I have and external 250GB hard drive - not new but it was functional. We had it a...
Summary: I have a 320GB WD Passport Elite external USB drive. Previous to that drive I had a 160GB model which always worked fine. This drive itself initially ...
Summary: Ok, I is back... found a spare ribbon cable from an old 98 machine that got junked a while back. I'm not really sure if that was all that was wrong, n...
Summary: I unplugged and replugged ing the IDE cable and it seems to be working fine. I think it was just a IDE cable problem. One weird thing is, the primary...
Summary: I have a maxtor hard drive. Recently I have been getting some clicking noises in the tower while surfing. I am told it could be my hard drive although...
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