Imminent Hard Drive Failure message

[jlockley]

on reboot I received twice a message that failure of the primary drive may be imminent with an admonition to back up and replace. I have formatted a similar drive with similar but not exact partitions and am going to begin transfer overnight in the hope that it will work

In the system management console, however the drive in supposed danger of failure appears to be healthy. Does anyone have knowledge of this warning (comes on initial boot). Suggestions for data transfer aside from "ghost"?

 

[mainegeek]

jlockley,
The message you are seeing is a S.M.A.R.T warning.

This stands for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology.

You should back-up any critical data and stop using it.

You should replace the drive with a new one.

The new drive will have a utility cd with it which will allow you to do a drive copy.(It will copy the entire partition from the old drive to the new one)

 

[jlockley]

The new drive didn't. I have partitioned, formatted and am copying Now. Send your best wishes this way.