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Dark808Cloud
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February 12th, 2010 13:00
SMART Failure message
I noticed this Wednesday evening when I got home,
SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0: WDC WD3200BEVT-75ZCT2-(S1)
WARNING: Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.
Press F1 to Continue
The morning of Wednesday, I was trying to turn off the laptop (it was on during the night), and it took forever to log off, I am usually out the door within 15min after I wake up and heading to work, but by the time I was ready to leave it was still on!! :o
It normally doesn't even take 3min to shut down. That was till I got home, and tried to turn it on, then I got that message. Then it stopped running, after resetting the computer a few times (on and off power being pressed), I got the blue screen of death (for the 2nd time I had that laptop, the first time was during my playing of World of Warcraft). I went OMG and restarted it, SMART failure message again, then the windows recovery window thingy, followed it, after a few minutes it would go blue screen of death again.
I desperatly need to backup and save the music I have on there (as a dj gotta have that music) I need help!!
LaptopNomad
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Posted February 12th, 2010 15:00
It seems the disk is dying - get ready for a new disk and data rescue operations.
If i was in your shoes:
I'd remove the hard disk, put in an external USB enclosure and connect it to a computer and try to copy data from it.
This computer must be virus free and should not start virus scanning the disk or do any other move to try and read it.
If read failures are encountered during the copy operation, try to work around that by copying different parts.
Once done, I'd try to make a drive image or ghost of the full disk to another disk.
If the drive image succeeds I'd try to restore it to a brand new drive and try to start from it, fixing any damaged files in the meanwhile.