OK...... i have a western digital 160 gig 7200 rpm drive.. i've had it for likka month now, got it from intrex.. its been work'n properly. I cut on my computer this morn'n, it booted up perfectly, i went back to sleep, then i woke up, and my comp. screen was black. my heart began jump'n like crazy, i have lots of data... so, i restart my comp., and it said somethin like "S.M.A.R.T. disk failed " at bootup. so i was like "awwwwwweeee shit". i began to examine my comp by just staring at it "why?". i tried to do what i could to salvage the data.. but whenever i'd reboot, sometimes the boot screen would say, "please select proper boot device", other times it'll get past that and go to the windows logo screen (never to fully boot). all i herd was numerous Clicks from my hard drive. i was just soo curious cause i havva good comp. that WD HDD + USB 2.0 HDD, P4 2.4, 512 ram. i shut off my comp, and opened up to see if there was anything internally wrong wit ma comp. i unplugged that serial cable thing and the power cable that was connected to ma internal HDD, and reconnected them. then wow, my comp works again. 100 percent right now. i have now backed up all my useful data to my USB 2 drive.... but what is this SMART thing?
check in your motherboard manual or in the bios about smart & disable it. supposedly gives you advance warning that your hd might be developing bad spots or is dying but is a pain in the butt so i disable it!!
S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. S.M.A.R.T. technology was developed by a number of major hard disk drive manufacturers in a concerted effort to increase the reliability of drives. It is a technology that enables the PC to predict the future failure of hard disk drives. S.M.A.R.T. technology has become an industry standard for hard drive manufacturers. Through the S.M.A.R.T. system, modern hard disk drives incorporate a suite of advanced diagnostics that monitor the internal operations of a drive and provide an early warning for many types of potential problems. When a potential problem is detected, the drive can be repaired or replaced before any data is lost or damaged. The S.M.A.R.T. system monitors the drive for anything that might seem out of the ordinary, documents it, and analyzes the data. If it sees something that indicates a problem, it is capable of notifying the user (or system administrator). S.M.A.R.T. monitors disk performance, faulty sectors, recalibration, CRC errors, drive spin-up time, drive heads, distance between the heads and the disk platters, drive temperature, and characteristics of the media, motor and servomechanisms. The errors the system can detect can be predicted by a number of methods. Currently the SMART system can detect about 70% of all hard drive errors. Here's an example: motor and/or bearing failure can be predicted by an increase in the drive spin-up time and the number of retries it takes to get the drive spinning at full speed. Or, if the drive notes that error correction is being needed excessively, it can attribute this to a broken drive head or surface contamination, and it will create an alert before the problem gets worse. Armed with a prediction of failure, the user or system administrator can make a backup copy of key data, replace a suspect device prior to data loss, and avoid undesired downtime. It can be a pain, but it can also warn you for future references. I have had some SMART enabled hard drives tell me problems and not ever encounter them again, I have also had some to fail full stop but SMART never reported anything, so the choice is yours. If you are getting oddball errors flag up because of it, back up all your data as a precaution and you can disbale or leave it enabled then....................
i know this thread is getting old but i am hoping somebody might reply....... so,,,this smart thing is a warning, not an error message in itself. So once you have read the warning should you be able to ignore it and boot up windows anyway. I get the "hard drive smart status - BAD" message, then press F2 to continue, but pressing F2 just gets you a black screen. Then if i reboot i get a black screen saying that there is a windows file missing, and that i must reinstall itto continue. What i am asking is has my smart warning come too late, does it sound like my HDD is buggered already?
if can get into windows in any mode than do a scan disk & select check for disk errors to see if have bad spots. windows will tell you have to restart to do the scandisk operation so do a restart.
no such luck, can't get into wondows at all. i've emailed a few recovery places and they all advise the same, not using the drive at all as this noise can only mean further damage is being caused. i think i'm going to send it away to be done by the pros. as much as i would love to beat this thing my myself i cant afford to lose the data. cheers
