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red3718

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:38 am
Post subject: SMART failure warning: maintenance possible?
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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

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Arno Wagner

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:48 am
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Previously red3718 <red3718.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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?

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

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Folkert Rienstra

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:54 pm
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"red3718" <red3718 DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1160732309.417026.73700@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com
> My laptop computer gave me a SMART failure warning with a

> low (1) reallocated sector count.

So obviously that wasn't the reason of the S.M.A.R.T. alert.

>
> Checking other messages on this group I understood

No you didn't.

> that my HD is at risk of failure so I backed up all relevant data.

All harddrives are at risk of failure.

> 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?

The same that you would do for your not-going-to-fail HD.

>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Giorgio
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Rod Speed

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:57 am
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red3718 <red3718.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote

> My laptop computer gave me a SMART failure
> warning with a low (1) reallocated sector count.

Post the full SMART report using Everest.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181

> 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?

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.
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Yousuf Khan

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:23 pm
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red3718 wrote:
> My laptop computer gave me a SMART failure warning with a low (1)
> reallocated sector count.

It sounds to me like the number of sectors that the hard drive has to
automatically recover from bad sectors is getting low.

> 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.

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

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There is no failure, only delayed success
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red3718

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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 4:43 am
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Folkert Rienstra ha scritto:

> "red3718" <red3718 DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1160732309.417026.73700@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com
> > My laptop computer gave me a SMART failure warning with a
>
> > low (1) reallocated sector count.
>
> So obviously that wasn't the reason of the S.M.A.R.T. alert.
>
> >
> > Checking other messages on this group I understood
>
> No you didn't.
>
> > that my HD is at risk of failure so I backed up all relevant data.
>
> All harddrives are at risk of failure.
>
> > 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?
>
> The same that you would do for your not-going-to-fail HD.
>
> >



Thank you, you have been really helpful.

Giorgio.
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