I got a SMART drive failure warning

Post by **Turbine** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:24 am

When I boot up the computer it pauses just after the CMOS drive settings check (the black-and-white screen displayed during POST check, when it detects your hard drives/CD-ROM drives before starting to boot Windows). I get a message that says "Warning, SMART has detected that a hard drive failure may be imminent. Please back up your data immediately. Hit F1 to continue." If I hit F1, the computer boots fine.

Uh Oh!

And I smell funny electronic smell from my computer, that I did not usualy detect. It is nothing strong. But just enought to be barely sniffable.

And the day before this, my brother connected another hard drive to the computer. The Hard Drive was in the computer for a fiew months, but not connected, becuse I had some problem booting from it. So I disconected it. And switched the secondary drive to primary.

I am hoping a fresh format will fix this, but I have gigs and gigs worth of stuff on it. I need a new drive.

P.S. I'm uploading the pics for the other post

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:44 am

ok and?

Post by **Turbine** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:46 am

What is a "SMART" hard drive faliure?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:48 am

how the fuck do I know?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:51 am

then why are you replying?..

anyway, backup the info that you need off that HDD asap, its on its way out..

SMART is a HDD Monitoring Ultity that is built into Both the HDD's and the bios.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:53 am

T&T is down the hall to the left.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:53 am

Funny, you cant seem to find it when you have questions..

edit: mod's please lock this or move it to TNT. thanks.

Post by **Tormentius** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:04 am

The question has been answered already, theres no point in locking or moving it IMO.

Turbine: If ya want more info on SMART check this out:

http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ ... SMART.html

Post by **Turbine** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:15 am

ok, thank you.

.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:16 am

AmIdYfReAk wrote:Funny, you cant seem to find it when you have questions..

edit: mod's please lock this or move it to TNT. thanks.

I always find it when I have tech questions you stupid douchebag.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:15 am

nice link torr,

Gonna add that one to the links list.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:39 am

ToxicBug wrote:ok and?

wth

Post by **Hannibal** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:50 am

Turbine wrote:"Warning, SMART has detected that a hard drive failure may be imminent..."

I'm reading 2001 A Space Odyssey at the moment, so this gave me a wee chuckle. If there is a Frank Poole living in your zip code, invite him over to inspect your computer and then laugh uncontrollably. He won't get it, but Frank never does. **THWAP**

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:13 am

ToxicBug wrote:T&T is down the hall to the left.

so is your math class
try attending it some time

Post by ek » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:21 am

Post by **Captain** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:18 am

MKJ wrote:
ToxicBug wrote:T&T is down the hall to the left.
so is your math class
try attending it some time

Math class never taught me electronics and information technology, but ToxicPug is still a dumbshit.

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:02 am

Captain Mazda wrote:
MKJ wrote:
ToxicBug wrote:T&T is down the hall to the left.
so is your math class
try attending it some time
Math class never taught me electronics and information technology, but ToxicPug is still a dumbshit.

read more toxicbug threads and you'll get the joke

and by joke i mean sad sad truth

Post by **Captain** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:54 am

Ah, you mean his endless and futile attempts of finding dickheads to do his math homework, right?

That was sad indeed.

Post by **mik0rs** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:01 pm

It's ToxicBug : INTERNET THUG.

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