Ready to crash?

Greetings once again! You folks did great helping me with my virus & trojans via HJL Now for the new problem on this "puter. When I boot it up The 1st black screen that pops up says [ 1720-smartdrive detects immeninent failure ] and i have to hit f1 to boot. Ran belarc an it says SMART-Failure! I have never seen a "puter this 'FRAGED, Exect in pictures,lol Now 4 the dirt, this a old compaq deskpro EN series,300meg. Pent.2 32k primary mem.,512k secondary. 3.25 gig HD, 821 Meg. free, Western Digital.caviar hard drive. I think it was a win98, but when I recieved it, it suprised the H##L out of me and booted winXP PRO Any way to help it or should I give it a warriors noble death AS always any input welcome! Thanks Autoholic

 

What the error message is telling you is that the hard drive has a problem and could be on its way out – imminently! So the first thing to do is backup or transfer any data you want to save. The S.M.A.R.T. feature is pretty good and reliable so believe it.

After your data is safe then use the hard drive manufactures disk diagnostic utility to check the hard drive. http://support.wdc.com

 

Thanx, what do I download there, the windows data lifegaurd diagnostics

 

Yes, that’s the one you want. Either the DOS floppy or CD versions. Not advisable to run the Windows version on the drive you want to check. You would use the Windows one if the drive you were checking was a slave and Windows were running on another hard drive.

 

Thanks, that was the one I was gonna download. Windows version

 

Hi! Well I've tried cd version of lifeguard,would not boot from cd.Tried dos version,Said need older version, Tried old version, goes to dos then tells me to remove disk or other media E-mailed western dig. and asked them about it, no response yet.Should I wipe it clean & reinstall w98se? Just trying to get it back to normal. Thanks again, Ernie