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SMART failure on maxtor drive

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Alright I got this really wierd message on an old backup Maxtor drive. I put it in yesterday and the BIOS says "SMART (something) has failed, hardware failure is eminent, backup all data immediately" somthing like that. What the hell is that?

The drive worked fine, had an OS on it. However it really f'ed up my other drive that was in my comp at the time, screwed up the MBR,, thank god for the recovery console and fixmbr command. Don't know for sure if the two things are related but is sure seems that way. Any ideas on what the SMART failure deal is?
 
SMART is kind of like an early warning radar for imminent hard drive failures. However, I've heard that it's notoriously unreliable so you might want to see what other people with similar experiences have to say about SMART failures.
 
BACKUP YOUR DRIVE, run maxtor diagnostic and send the crap back if missing sectors or something else fails.
 
The only time I have ever seen that message was when a hard drive was developing bad sectors. You may want to run a full ScanDisk (including surface scan) to make sure your hard drive isn't going bad on you.
 
Alright, will do.

Do you all think the problems I got could be linked?

Let me tell ya exactly what went down. I was going to hook my old drive up to ghost the image of my new one's OS to it, for a backup. I hooked it up, but slipped up at first and put them both in as PriMaster. No problem, put one as slave reboot. But it was a problem. My newer hard drive, was showing up as have no partitions whatsoever. I paniced at first, got into the 2k recovery console and used fixmbr (well first I tried about 10 other things but that is what fixed it). But anyway, I got that message once,, about my older Maxtor when my newer 75GXP screwed up. I have hooked up the Maxtor again to see if the same message pops up (w/o the 75gxp hooked up mind you) and it did. I'll try a full scan and whatnot, I think it's a little late to RMA it, the drive is from '97. thanks guys.
 
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