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S.M.A.R.T. hard drive giving bad drive message-how much time do I have?

Thump553

Thump553

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I have a 40 gig Maxtor in my home system (only one hard drive). Enabled S.M.A.R.T with the latest motherboard (ECS K7S5A) about 1-2 months ago. Starting Friday or so, on reboot I get a warning that the hard drive is failing, back up or replace ASAP. Any idea how much time I have?

Running Win 2000 & system on basically 24/7. No apparent problems at present other than the warning message.

 
...about as much time as being bitten by a black mamba. No, really, mine died hard on the third boot after the msg.
 
and what did/do you then in case this happens ?

RMA, package to maxtor, new drive in two days ?




 
Thanks Danlz, for the words of warning.

I'm super busy this week, but better find the time to get a new HD and transfer contents over. Will then deal with Maxtor about RMA'ing the old one. No current backup on that computer-and I don't want to go through the hassle of reinstalling everything.
 


<< I have a 40 gig Maxtor in my home system (only one hard drive). Enabled S.M.A.R.T with the latest motherboard (ECS K7S5A) about 1-2 months ago. Starting Friday or so, on reboot I get a warning that the hard drive is failing, back up or replace ASAP. Any idea how much time I have?

Running Win 2000 & system on basically 24/7. No apparent problems at present other than the warning message. >>



it varies pretty dramatically in how much time you have left.... basically anywhere from a few boots to two months.
 
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