Asked By
Paulee
200 points
N/A
Posted on - 06/08/2011
For three years that I've been using with my laptop computer the message above with S.M.A.R.T occurred few weeks from now.
As anyone does with their computers like internet surfing, software installations, upgrading drivers and booting are done as my system routine. Scanning the drivers and restoring the factory settings.
But I have noticed this message every time I turned on and start the computer before the Windows logo is loading. At first i took it for granted but lately i started to get worried.
What is S.M.A.R.T doing with my laptop? If this message-alert will not take for an action what happened to the computer?
Legacy Keyboard … Detected
USB Legacy …….. Enabled
Fixed Disk 0:Â PM-WDCÂ WD740GD-00FLA1
Fixed Disk 1:Â SM-WDCÂ WD2000JD-22HBB0
ATAPIÂ CD-ROM 3M-_NECÂ DVD_RWÂ ND-3550A
Pri Master Hard Disk:S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, Backup and Replace
Press <F4> to Resume
Thanks
S.M.A.R.T. status bad backup and replace
Dear Paulee,
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First step to do is take backup of your all hard drive data, its a serious message from your system and your hard drive is likely to failing / dead.Â
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Secondly you can download and run diagnostics tool from western digital site and run full hard drive scan. i know that you have installed western digital hard drive which i see in snap shot. For download utility, link is here
http://support.wdc.com/download/
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SMART is a self test utility that check hard drive working and its life. HDD is going to die, it's just matter of time and usage.
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Take care
Answered By
anrewbst
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#113394
S.M.A.R.T. status bad backup and replace
Hi Paulee,
The need of the S.M.A.R.T. utility is clear, it advises the user for imminent disk failure, whatever, it may happen that your hard drive will fail after several months or years.
You if want to deeply search for details, you can download the following utility:
http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/index.html
Pay attention to "Reallocated sector Count" value; if it decreases when compared to initial value, the failure of your hard drive will be forthcoming.
