Computer Expert help needed

[14k]

Just put a new primary hdd in my PC (it's old actually, but newly deleted and formatted)
Turn the PC on and it reads it (and all the other drives connected with their names in that list thing) but at the bottom it says: "SMART Failure predicted on Primary Master: WDC WD1200JB-00CRA0, Immediately back-up our data and replace your hard disk drive, a failure may be imminent"

This is what it said before with my other hdd after I noticed Windows stopped doing things properly. So I took it out and replaced it with this one (deleted everything on it first) but it still says this. I hit F1 to continue and it stops and says "NTLDR is missing press ctrl-alt-del to restart" what does this mean!!? I booted to CD instead to setup windows, but halfway through windows setup it went wrong, and when I rebooted this thing happened again.

This is really bad and annoying, anyone know what to do? Is this hdd just dead?

 

[Viditor]

When you formatted, did you do a quick format or a full format? Try doing a full format...

 

[14k]

I did a full format
I have now put windows XP on this drive and it seems to be going fine.. ONLY thing is the boot screen (where it lists the 4 devices connected - at the bottom it says "SMART Failure predicted on Primary Master: WDC WD1200JB-00CRA0, Immediately back-up our data and replace your hard disk drive, a failure may be imminent"

Is there anyway to turn this off? because it can't be right, it was saying this as soon as I put the hdd in when there was nothing on it. I think it is carrying this error over from the last hdd I had in on the same channel.

 

[tiap]

Backup any data.
Reset/upgrade your bios if you have convinced yourself this is the problem.
Then,
Download free Datalifetools from WD website.
Make dos boot diagnostic disk.
Boot and run disk diagnostics.
Believe the results and act accordingly.

 

[14k]

Thanks, in the process of trying that but getting a bit complicated with my laptop not having a floppy drive so can't create BIOS/book disks etc..

Any other suggestions for the moment?

I'm tempted to just get a whole new PC! I'm convinced all these dead hdds are because of Bittorrent-ing!

 

[sandorski]

I assume the WD drive mentioned is the new HDD?

If so, I think the HDD Controller is borked. Switch over to the Secondary Controller and see if things work properly. If they do, get a PCI controller or consider RMAing the mobo(assuming under Warranty) or replacing it.

 

[RanDum72]

How old is the PC? what kind of mobo does it use?