- SMART failure warning: maintenance possible?
- Posted by red3718 on October 13th, 2006
My laptop computer gave me a SMART failure warning with a low (1)
reallocated sector count.
Checking other messages on this group I understood that my HD is at
risk of failure so I backed up all relevant data. As I use this
computer mainly for games and music playback and never for sensitive
data, I would like to use it as much as possible without replacing the
HD.
Is there any maintenance I can do for extending the life of my
going-to-fail HD?
Thanks for your help.
Giorgio
- Posted by Arno Wagner on October 13th, 2006
Previously red3718 <red3718@yahoo.com> wrote:
You can do a complete surface scan regularly. That might increase
the probability that sectors turning bad are found and replaced
before they become unreadable. One possibility is to run a long
SMART selftest. An other one is to just read the complete disk
sector by sector (Linux: cat /dev/<disk> > /dev/null, Windows:
difficult...)
Arno
- Posted by Folkert Rienstra on October 13th, 2006
"red3718" <red3718@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1160732309.417026.73700@i42g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com
So obviously that wasn't the reason of the S.M.A.R.T. alert.
No you didn't.
All harddrives are at risk of failure.
The same that you would do for your not-going-to-fail HD.
- Posted by Rod Speed on October 13th, 2006
red3718 <red3718@yahoo.com> wrote
Post the full SMART report using Everest.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181
Just keep checking the full SMART report to see if anything changes over time.
If it really is just one reallocated sector, you may not get anymore.
- Posted by Yousuf Khan on October 14th, 2006
red3718 wrote:
It sounds to me like the number of sectors that the hard drive has to
automatically recover from bad sectors is getting low.
Not much, in my opinion once you have a SMART error, that's it, you're
already at your last chance. SMART errors rarely ever crop up, and when
they do, that's a special occasion that should not be ignored.
Yousuf Khan
--
There is no failure, only delayed success
- Posted by Folkert Rienstra on October 15th, 2006
"Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:4531634b$1@news.bnb-lp.com
Better have your ears pierced then.
LOL.
And who cares about your opinion.
Nonsense.
Some counters can also backup again and the S.M.A.R.T. status reverts.
Unless S.M.A.R.T. rather obviously fucks up.
- Posted by red3718 on October 21st, 2006
Folkert Rienstra ha scritto:
Thank you, you have been really helpful.
Giorgio.
