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Hard drive dying??

  • 05-01-2005 12:11am
    #1
    stuey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭


    i left all 6 of my drives defraging over night, and it was still running this morning/afternoon. then i heard a click coming from one of the drives (dont know which one cause there is 6 of them). anywho i've been throught this before so my first thought was #$%*@. i hit the reset button expecting it to be still clicking but it was fine. its working fine at the mo and i ran the western digital diagnostic test and the results were

    Test: Passed
    SMART: Fail

    This makes no sense to me!!. i have backed up the drive already but how can the test pass if the SMART failed


Comments

  • #2
    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    If the harddrive is on its way to death, then the smart tags will record the drives slow and painful way to death. This means that the second any one of the drives attributes hits a new "low" point, it gets recorded in SMART. So what probably has happened is one of the attributes has hit the criticial point, but because its a slow death, the drive hasn't died yet. I'd give it a week.


  • #3
    SwampThing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭SwampThing


    Painful! I'd be breakin out Acronis or Ghost right about.......now!


  • #4
    NotMe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭NotMe


    Run a scan disk on it. I had the whole smart failure thing, had to go through the bios to load the OS. I ran chkdsk /f and it's working fine now. It was just some bad sectors that chkdsk was able to fix. Of course DO backup all important data just in case.


  • #5
    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    wowzer, the EXACT same thing happened to me today also!

    It's a fairly old hdd though, and I've been working it really hard of late, Must back up.


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