SMART FAILURE PREDICTED! PLS HELP!!!

[Wisegi]

HI All...

I have just recently gone through the process of adding a new hd to my cpu with my old one as a slave. It was all working fine until I tried to boot up without the slave but now when I boot up I get the following msg ...

Smart Failure Predicted on Primary Master - Maxtor 6y120PO

Imediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive - A Failure may be immient?

Hmmm ok now what can I do to get rid of this msg? I don't see why I need to replace my HD cause it's brand new... * maybe 2 weeks old? *

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thx

Rey

 

[smah]

"I don't see why I need to replace my HD cause it's brand new... * maybe 2 weeks old? *"

Well then just ignore it to see if it goes away.

Seriously though, if it's only 2 weeks old now's a good time to return it.

 

[Wisegi]

Hmmm is there something in the bios that I can do to reset it?

 

[SYAR2003]

You can turn off bios reporting of smart usually.
The smart registers are in the HD itself and can not be disabled.
But turning it off in bios makes querys to
the HD impossible .

 

[huevin]

Some Compaq's models requires an upgrade to prevent this messages. Take a look to your MB's manufacturer in order to see if you need a similar solution

 

[Wisegi]

Hmmm THis may be a dumb question but.... what do you mean by....

But turning it off in bios makes querys to
the HD impossible

What kind of Querys would I make?

Also would it be bad if I just left it as is... It continues to boot fine I just have to press F1 when it hits the error.....?

 

[SYAR2003]

With query's the harddisks smart status
through bios i mean:

The SMART system consists of software that resides both on the disk drive and on the PC. The software on the PC allows a disk drive to report data about its activity after
a query to the disks smart data, such as the number of hours it has been in operation, the number of seek errors that have occurred and been corrected, it monitors the internal performance of the motors, media, heads, and electronics of the drive. The PC's software determines the overall reliability of the drive by analyzing the drive's internal performance parameters and comparing them to predetermined threshold limits.

An example of such PC software is Active SMART from ariolic.

The message you get is during BOOT from bios and
has nothing to do with the SMART monitoring from OS.
So check for bios entrys SMART-monitoring: Enable/disable.

 

[Wisegi]

Thx for the info....

One more question.... what would you do?

 

[SYAR2003]

Test the drive in another computer
and if the smart reporting gives errors on thresholds
on this pc to (i would know that it's the drive).
I would take it back where i bought it ,explain
what i have done, tested , and demand a replacement.