IDE Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Status BAD - options?
Hello everyone,
I recently ventured back into windows (couldn't get gtkpod to work, so had to resort to itunes, but that's another story) and was updating some id3 tags on some mp3s on c:\ (which is confusingly not the root drive (which is E:\), but is my storage hard drive), when windows said it couldn't write the file C:\$tmp-something-or-other (can't remember what it was called exactly - it was one of those annoying ballon notification things). Anyway, I thought, it's done that before and been fine, just reboot and you're away. Well, firstly I couldn't reboot from the menu - I had to hit the reset button - never a nice experience. So it reset, and then my BIOS gives me the S.M.A.R.T Status BAD message on the storage hard drive. Basically I just want to know how best to proceed from here. My BIOS informs me I should backup and replace my hard drive. It then asks me if I want to continue loading the OS even though the S.M.A.R.T Status has failed, which I haven't done yet. The drive is formatted as NTFS, so it never gets written to from my Slack installation, but would it be better to boot to a live CD? I've got an external USB hard drive which I want to dump all the data onto, would booting into Slack and mounting that and then doing Code:
cp -R /mnt/storage_drive/* /mnt/external_usb_disk All thoughts welcome :) Thanks. |
Definitely the idea once you have the data backup you may want to go to the manufacturer's website then download their diagnostic tools create the boot floppy/CD and boot with it then run the full test on the BAD hard drive.
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Is there any way to rescue the disk then? I've backed up all my data, so I don't really mind what happens to the disk now, but it'd still be nice to have since it's a useful extra 160GB!
I remember when I got the disk I had a floppy with a utility to completely return the disk to zeros - but surely a hardware failure cannot be fixed by just wiping the disk clean? Are there any more comprehensive tools to see exactly what's about to fail? |
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