Posted April 27, 200915 yr So on boot up my pc gives me this warning saying a hard drive failure is inevitable - not exactly what i wanted to hear. Press f1 to continue. It boots up fine, and i start messing around. then it gives me a warning again... Now i start to freak and am currently backing everything i can up. Another symptom: mouse and everything just locked up for a short while. The drive is an "ATA" hard drive. All advice so far is to buy a new hard drive and suffer the pain of reinstalling everything. what i'm wondering is if this could be anything else and what else can i do? What else should i check? Any tricks to streamline a full reinstall process would also be handy. cheers.
April 27, 200915 yr Hey Xaboo, That is probably the SMART system getting readings from your HDD which are sign's of its performance decreasing which could lead to failing. I suggest you get a new HDD, if you system can support a SATA drive I suggest you get one. A PATA drive will be harder to find and will probably cost more and performance wise is not worth it. In terms of backing up or reinstalling, if you have an external HDD (Or put you new HDD with the old one) you could take a image of you HDD and copy it to the other one and be up and running without doing ANY re-installing. This software will do the trick, it will basically replicate the old HDD onto your new one or you can replicate it to a file if you want to store it on an external drive till you get your new one. http://www.drive-image.com/ Hope this info helps. http://www.clan-tea.com/sigs/flames/Poncho-Temp.png Orders starting with SOMEBODY usually wind up being completed by NOBODY.
April 27, 200915 yr Author Cheers for the link poncho, i'll definitely look at that as i really don't have the time to do a reinstall. I rebooted recently and had a closer look. It is the SMART system thats complaining. I currently have a Sata drive so getting a new shouldn't be problem (money factor aside). Thanks.
April 27, 200915 yr Author Oh, question about that software. once you've created an image do you have to have the software continually running? ie if i get the trial version, when it runs out will the image cease to work?
April 27, 200915 yr my advice is find someone who has an external hardrive, copy yours to theirs, then put a new one in yours, copy it all back. easiest and safest way that i know of.
April 27, 200915 yr Oh, question about that software. once you've created an image do you have to have the software continually running? ie if i get the trial version, when it runs out will the image cease to work? The image will still be valid... but your imaging software won't work anymore.. http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee94/psyrus_uraya/awards-1.png QFT: Your computer is smart man. It tells you not to play the second worst PR map [burning Sands] (first is Wanda Shan). QFT: if you dont get pissed off when you lose you dont care enough
April 27, 200915 yr Oh, question about that software. once you've created an image do you have to have the software continually running? ie if i get the trial version, when it runs out will the image cease to work? The image won't cease to work but the software will, you should be able to just re-download it to be able to use it again. I suggest you do a direct copy to another HDD instead of creating an image. I suggest you go buy another HDD asap, Seagate SATA 250GB for $65 at MSY. And than use that software to just do a complete image of you current HDD and as soon as that finishes, turn off PC, take out your old HDD and turn your PC on again. You should be much better off doing it that way. http://www.clan-tea.com/sigs/flames/Poncho-Temp.png Orders starting with SOMEBODY usually wind up being completed by NOBODY.
April 28, 200915 yr I picked up a 500 gig USB hardrive 6+ months ago for like $160 from a post office... there should be plenty of similar (and cheaper) options for backing up your data "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
April 28, 200915 yr I got a 640gb External for $100 at Umart in Brisbane. Good pickup and works great as I had to format my computer a while ago. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
April 28, 200915 yr Get a Hard Drive caddy. You can slip in and out whatever size hard drive you choose, as you fill them. Plus you can have USB, firewire, eSata connections as well. http://imgur.com/e5y6e.gif You've already ruined these forums for me, I have no desire to read your rhetoric or the pathetic arguments you get yourself in to, or the personal vendetta you have against me, so please, do not talk to me. Ever. About anything.
April 28, 200915 yr I have never used this but its at your price http://www.miray.de/download/sat.hdclone.html http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff136/paulwar_photos/735c4e74-282e-49b6-99c3-6c443f8c759f.jpg MSI970A Gaming Pro Carbon - AMD FX-8350 - 12GBytes - GTX 750 Ti 2GBytes
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