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Original Message 1/9 15-Dec-03 @ 09:42 PM - NE1 had this with a HD? - Real?

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yeah, I swapped some drives around and lost a partition due to MBR missing from old C: drive... got the whole drive back with a reformat... but

i get a message I've never had before on BOOT, from the BIOS saying that the SMART thingy says the drive will fail soon (possibly)

is that real or ignorable? - i'm re-low-level formatting it again now to check... but is that error message worth listening to?.. never had it before.

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Message 2/9 15-Dec-03 @ 09:52 PM - RE: NE1 had this with a HD? - Real?

Tom

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k,

I wouldn't trust that drive with any sensitive data. I think most hard drives have some free sectors reserved in case some sectors become bad. The drive makes this seemless (i.e. no bad sectors will show up cause the drive will put the data from a bad area of the drive to the reserved one) What i think SMART does, it keeps track of that activity. When the drive gets low on reserved sectors, It starts warning you.

While you may get rid of that warning if you low level format it, it may not solve the real problem which is a problematic drive.

- Tom

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Message 3/9 15-Dec-03 @ 11:14 PM - RE: NE1 had this with a HD? - Real?

milan

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did you have an ibm deskstar k? i thought that was exactly what they did. i know a friend of mine had something very simmilar happen to him.

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Message 4/9 16-Dec-03 @ 12:48 PM - RE: NE1 had this with a HD? - Real?

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nah not deathstar, maxtor... yeah the smart monitors lots of stuff, inc' mechanicals, like start time etc... damn.... f*ck!... I spent like 6 hours testing it with Maxtor applications... failed... boo!

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Message 5/9 16-Dec-03 @ 02:00 PM - RE: NE1 had this with a HD? - Real?

Yonce N Mild

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Well that one is new to me k, but as a general rule any time I get ANY disk errors I assume the drive is on it's way out. Ghost it and replace it.

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Message 6/9 16-Dec-03 @ 02:47 PM - RE: NE1 had this with a HD? - Real?

Tom

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That sucks k, but shit happens.

My friend had his brand new hard drive completely die once after a 2 weeks without any notice!

Tom

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Message 7/9 16-Dec-03 @ 04:45 PM - RE: NE1 had this with a HD? - Real?

craig

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I've got a drive that's been saying that for like a year now.

-Craig

PS - if it's important I'd replace the drive.

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Message 8/9 16-Dec-03 @ 06:37 PM - RE: NE1 had this with a HD? - Real?

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well, today its not saying that & passing all tests... might have been heat measurement - the drive had been going for like 8 hours non-stop activity, and I didnt have it in a sledge, it was lying flat on top of the cd drive case, so I put it up with some air circulation and it seems fine now.

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Message 9/9 16-Dec-03 @ 09:47 PM - RE: NE1 had this with a HD? - Real?

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Had it happen to me with a drive on my current PC, I was worried to use it with my audio data so bought a new drive and shoved the 'possibly' faulty drive in my old P500 machine for more filth and MP3 storage.

It's worked fine in that PC ever since, as has the new hard drive in my newer PC so it probably wasn't the IDE controller either.

Still better safe than sorry. Good luck.

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