O.P.  S.M.A.R.T. Fail Status
Since yesterday, each time I reboot my PC I get the following message right after the BIOS:
"WARNING: Dell's Disk Monitoring System has detected that drive 0 on the primary EIDE controller (the system drive) is operating outside of normal specifications. It is advisable to immediately backup your data and replace your hard disk drive by calling your support desk or Dell Computer Corporation.
STRIKE F1 to continue, F2 to run the setup utility"
So I press F1 and Windows boots fine and everything is normal. From within Windows I ran HDDLife and it reports that the system drive needs urgennt replacement, and the Western Digital Lifeguard Diagnostics shows a SMART Status Fail on the system drive, showing that the Re-Allocated sector count (ID#5) is the only SMART attribute showing trouble (Value 140, Threshold 140, Worst 140, Warranty 1).
My question is: could it be that the hard drive is 100% healthy and that this message is caused by some other problem in the PC? Or should I trust this message 100%? In the latter case, what are the implications? Does it mean that very soon the hard drive will crash?
In anycase I was frightened enough to completely back up all my data to a 2nd drive.
This post was edited on 03-07-2007 at 05:07 AM by alegator.
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