jackhammerbob
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Pri Master Hard Disk..S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, Backup and Replace
Anyone got any ideas?
Thank you
Anyone got any ideas?
Thank you
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Pri Master Hard Disk..S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, Backup and Replace
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TekTippy4U
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First thing....Back up your Data........
This SMART warning 'may' have been triggered by environmental reasons such as excessive vibration, electrical interference, electrical interference from motors from other devices on the same circuit as the pc......
BUT.....it also may mean that your drive is about to die......Check with the Drive Manu. or PC Manu. concerning the warranty......If this has happened often recently....you may want to consider getting a new drive while this one still works......because you may be able to copy the data over to the new drive, without having to restore the data from you're backup..
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This SMART warning 'may' have been triggered by environmental reasons such as excessive vibration, electrical interference, electrical interference from motors from other devices on the same circuit as the pc......
BUT.....it also may mean that your drive is about to die......Check with the Drive Manu. or PC Manu. concerning the warranty......If this has happened often recently....you may want to consider getting a new drive while this one still works......because you may be able to copy the data over to the new drive, without having to restore the data from you're backup..
TT4u
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These are just "my" thoughts....and should be carefully measured against other opinions....I try very hard to impart correct info at all times.
Whatever brand of hard drive you have, download there hard drive utility software, this software asks you to make a bootable disk floppy.
Part of these utilities allow a full S.M.A.R.T test dianostics but better still are other utilities that can low level format and atempt to recover the drive back to factory settings, I have seen a high sucess rate in recovering hard drives after they have reported bad.
Once you have gone through the recovery process you can re-run the S.M.A.R.T test to see if it's status has changed.
Martin
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Part of these utilities allow a full S.M.A.R.T test dianostics but better still are other utilities that can low level format and atempt to recover the drive back to factory settings, I have seen a high sucess rate in recovering hard drives after they have reported bad.
Once you have gone through the recovery process you can re-run the S.M.A.R.T test to see if it's status has changed.
Martin
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