S.M.A.R.T Hard Drive Failure Notice.

Mucho

Guest
Oct 20, 2001
8,231
2
0
My have a S.M.A.R.T hard drive failure notice on a system its a 40GB Maxtor drive less than a year old.
How long do think it will be before its totally dead?
 

MrTux

Senior member
Nov 6, 2001
717
0
0
There's not much way to tell. Several computers at my school came up with SMART hard drive warnings near the beginning of the year, but they're still running fine 9 weeks later.
 

Joemonkey

Diamond Member
Mar 3, 2001
8,859
2
0
I'd run the PowerMax diagnostics on it, get the error code from it, and RMA the drive before the warranty is up.