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April 11th, 2004 08:00

Hard Drive Failure

Hi

 

I've got a GX100 running a 533mhz Celeron, I've tried 3 different drives now and they all end up being full of errors. I get that Message on startup that the Drive is about to fail, and backup.

I don't think all these drives have failed, it's abit of a coinsidence.

I'm trying to install it on the secondary ide connector, it is recognised during bootup and within windows(98se),

I can just press F1 to continue but that doesn't solve the error.

All the drives that i have tried have been 6.4gb, i was wondering then, if there is a bug within the bios????

 

Thanks.

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    speedstep

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    Posted April 12th, 2004 02:00

    6.4 gig drives are VERY OLD and probably have MANY ECC errors and thats why SMART is telling you that these drives are going to fail soon.
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    Dagger1

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    Posted April 12th, 2004 05:00

    Is there any way that I can disable Smart???

     

    Thanks.

     

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    Pookieman82

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    Posted April 12th, 2004 20:00

    Disabling Smart wont make the errors go away. I would just go ahead and buy a new updated hard drive, and if you still get errors then you can try updating your FlashBios, heres a link for your system. http://support.dell.com/FileLib/Format.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&Category=1&OS=NAA&OSL=EN&SvcTag=&SysID=PLX_PNT_CEL_GX100&DeviceID=162&Type=&ReleaseID=R33556
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    sobeit-uk

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    Posted April 13th, 2004 09:00

    OK, so I have a GX260 1.8Ghz, with 80Gb HDD (August 2002) still under warranty which keeps coming up "SMART your hard disk is about to fail" type message. What should I do about it. Can I call the service number and ask for a swap out?
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    Pookieman82

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    Posted April 17th, 2004 02:00

    Good thing is that you're still under warranty. I really doubt if your hard drive is goin bad at such a young stage, but have them switch it out for a new drive. If you get the same error then its something on your system ( probably a setting ) thats making it read your hard drive wrong.
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    PCTech31

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    Posted April 21st, 2004 12:00

    I have had many gx/sx 260/270 hard drive go bad in under a year.

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