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-=Pyro-Psycho=- · Tweakafile Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 935 Location: TN

Woke up and turned on the PC this morning and got this error message: "Primary Hard Disk S.M.A.R.T. Status Bad. WARNING : Immediate back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent."

I just find it rather funny. I always try to get everything in order in my life after letting everything go crazy, and then I always get hit with something like this. I'm not really surprised the HDD is like 3 or 4 years old, and out of my old Compaq. I was planning on getting a new one anyway, but I'm low on cash at the moment. Think this thing will last at all, or is it almost dead?
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JayDubya · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject:

Its hard to say. Just back up all your important files ASAP. When a HDD wants to go, it'll go.
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racing87stang · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject:

I have spare 20gb hard drives if you need a spare for a while. I will never use them so if you need it let me know
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meobius · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:39 pm Post subject:

it could die today, it could die tomorrow, it could last months. SMART errors are an indication that the drive is failing, not that it is dead yet. It is a sign to back everything up and replace the drive as soon as possible.
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Xal · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:28 am Post subject:

I have a 60gb maxtor that has been giving that warning for 2 years and it still works fine. I use it as a games and music drive and keep all the important stuff backed up but so far it hasn`t died.
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-=Pyro-Psycho=- · Tweakafile Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 935 Location: TN

UPDATE

I've got some good news, it stopped giving me the error.

But...it also doesn't recognize the drive anymore. Yay. :)
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great.....

...hope you did that backup
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Ham_fisT · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject:

DUDE

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-=Pyro-Psycho=- · Tweakafile Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 935 Location: TN

Lmao.

Actually it's acting weird. It's been hot the past few days and this apartment will not cool down at all. After the PC was off for a bit I started it back up and gave be the message but would still load. So now I just believe it's more prone to overheating. I'm still going to order a new HDD whenever I can though.
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Xal · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:19 am Post subject:

Maybe find the offending chip on the PCB and whack a ramsink on it

Not too hard mind
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

or just do the freezer trick and get your data off of it asap.......
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JayDubya · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:27 am Post subject:

^^Definately. If you have important information burn a few cds. Don't wait much longer. The longer you wait, the greater the chance it WILL FAIL.
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-=Pyro-Psycho=- · Tweakafile Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 935 Location: TN

Ok so it finally just died on me today and I got a new one. I got a 200GB SATA Maxtor. This is the very fist SATA that I have used and it's not being detected for the WIndows setup. What exactly do I need to do? I went in the RAID utitlity and started a low level format. Will the format make it work?
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2old2care · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject:

Obviously you need to read you mobo manual, but there is a setting in the BIOS that does sata/pata/sata+pata or such. If you're doing the RAID thing will will need the Windows drivers for the controller, that also came with the mobo. You may even need a driver for sata single, again depending on mobo.
Best thing is to go to the manufacturers website and get the latest drivers and check out their FAQs in case there is something special with it.
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-=Pyro-Psycho=- · Tweakafile Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 935 Location: TN

Hmmm I don't have my mobo manual here at the moment. I'll check around the website to see what I can find.
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

What 2O said. ^^^^

Unless it's a new mobo, that has SATA2, then you need to install the SATA drivers for the ports to actually work.
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Ok well when am I suppose to install them? During the Windows install? It just keeps looping on me. It asks for drivers for the drive then I Specify that they are on the floppy. It acts like it installs something then just asks me the same question again...

It's sort of annoying since both roomates comps don't have working floppy drives. So I've got to change mine out just to make a floppy...

Oh well I'll keep trying stuff.
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Ok well after reading through the readme for the driver I know that I'm doing everything exactly as I should, it's just that Windows isn't doing what it's suppose to at the moment.

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-=Pyro-Psycho=- · Tweakafile Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 935 Location: TN

Ok well I have no idea what to do. Everytime it just won't install the drivers.

It asks for the drivers, I put in the floppy. It then says that windows has newer drivers so I tell it to just use the floppy. It acts like it installs something, then asks me install the damn RAID drivers again. All it does is loop, there's nothing I can do. Everything right now is just pissing me off.
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-=Pyro-Psycho=- · Tweakafile Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 935 Location: TN

Jesus Christ this is pissing me off. I have done everything I can think of about 5 times. Switching out SATA cables, changing SATA ports and whatever else. It just won't show up.

The HDD just won't show up at all for the Windows installation. I used the Maxtor software to double check that the drive is showing up. All the tests passed and said it was working. I then fully formatted the HDD hoping that would fix it, still nothing.

Maybe it's something with my bios? I don't have my manual, but the only option I saw was something between SATA, SATA Raid and Disabled. It's set at SATA. I just don't know what the hell to do.
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[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:00 am Post subject:

ok what exactly is going on?

you hooked up your SATA drive and you try to install windows on the new drive but it doesn't show up in the in the menu that the windows install shows?
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Xal · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:37 am Post subject:

Try setting the SATA port to legacy in bios.
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