Most SMART errors are letting you know the drive will fail. There is an ANSI standard for the Errors you receive. I forget where I used to get the codes. Now a days I just get the drive duplicated as soon as possible.
IMO, most SMART problems are due to the Track 0 (Servo Tracks) are being destroyed for some reason or another. You are unable to repair those sectors, it has valuable servo information about your unique hard drive. On the other hand it could be a CC error in the Upper area as well that's creating the error. I would still duplicate it and get it replaced. Rule 1: Back the data up Rule 2: See rule one Rule 3: No Backup, cry and look for ways to get it back. Regards, Tim "The Beave" Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe User Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:31 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] I'm losin' it... Hello, I think I am losing it. I have a Maxtor drive that *may* be going out on me. I came in to see my WinXP Pro SP2 machine with a powered monitor but all black screen (It should have been on power save). System was (i think) not responding. So I reboot and then come back later to the same thing. So I go through the event viewer and see this: Event Type: Warning Event Source: Disk Event Category: None Event ID: 52 Date: 1/17/2008 Time: 2:24:02 AM User: N/A Computer: VENUS Description: The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 0e 00 03 00 01 00 5e 00 ......^. 0008: 00 00 00 00 34 00 04 80 ....4..? 0010: 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 11 2d 00 ......-. 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0028: 00 00 00 ... So I already know that SMART isn't *always* smart but I start xcopy'ing everything nonetheless. I grab my famous PROGRAMS DISCS and start loading Partition Magic and Drive Image. I pick another drive in this same system (there are 4 physical drives - 2 on Promise 100 card) and xcopy both partition on the drive over to this new(ish) one. I have to do this because the original and possibly failing drive is a 30gb split in half with a FAT32 Win98 install on C: (First half of drive) and a NTFS WinXP Pro install on E: (Second half of the drive) AND the new one is a 20GB. Size isn't the same so Drive Image won't do a copy disk to disk for me. No worries, I think, I partition the 20GB in FAT32 the first 40% and NTFS the last 60%. I copy the data over (again). I make sure boot.ini (on first partition) and ntdetect.com and all that are there on that 98 partition and all that. They are exactly the same. So I pull the system swpa the drive and put the 20GB in the (failing?) 30gb spot and jumper them etc. I mark the 20GB drive active with 98 disk AND do a fixmbr and fixboot with XP and still the drive will only boot to 98. If I mark the NTFS/XP partition it just sits blinking cursor - no boot menu - no nothing. WTF am I missing here? Is there a program that can query SMART error messages? I would really like to know what is wrong with the drive because it's still just chugging along here. Thank god the bios allows me to boot from scsi devices. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
