SMART Erorr on hard drive! Help plz

dannaswolcott · 08-20-2006, 12:40 PM

hi all, i have a compaq desktop hear, and when it boots, its giving me this erorr, SMART, Back up and replace, press F2 to boot, i press F2, and it boots. The pc does seam to run ok, but i have a felling that the hard drive may be on its way out. I have checked the bios for a setting to disable the SMART warning and i cant find it. Is there a way i can erase the smart erorr or fix my hard drive? i really don't have any money for a new HD at this time. Thx

nick5449 · 08-21-2006, 01:33 AM

SMART stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. It pretty much justt keeps track of certain information on your hard drive and if it sees something that may cause data loss it will tell you. It sounds like something is going wrong with your hard drive, but it may not necessarily need replacing right away. Just back up all your data and hope it doesnt crash anytime soon. You should be able to turn it off within the BIOS, you might want to look again.

08-20-2006, 12:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
dannaswolcott Gold Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: world of my own Age: 17 Posts: 339	SMART Erorr on hard drive! Help plz hi all, i have a compaq desktop hear, and when it boots, its giving me this erorr, SMART, Back up and replace, press F2 to boot, i press F2, and it boots. The pc does seam to run ok, but i have a felling that the hard drive may be on its way out. I have checked the bios for a setting to disable the SMART warning and i cant find it. Is there a way i can erase the smart erorr or fix my hard drive? i really don't have any money for a new HD at this time. Thx __________________ Custom Built, Intel Pentium Dual Core 2ghz OC to 2.60ghz, 320gb HD, Win VISTA & XP, 500W PSU, 512mb Video Card DVD-RW (Aug 08)Toshiba Satellite A135-S7406 Laptop, Celeron M 1.73ghz, 2GB DDR2 Ram, 80GB Hard Drive, DVD-RW, Windows VISTA(Dec 17th 2007) Compaq Desktop Celeron D 3.20ghz, Windows XP Pro, 120gb SATA Hard Drive, 100 GB IDE Hard Drive, 200gb SATA Hard Drive, DVD-RW DL, DVD-ROM, 1.5GB DDR Memory (Bought in Spt 2006) Road Runner,Wireless N My Home Page: www.wolcottscomputersupport.net

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08-21-2006, 01:33 AM	#2 (permalink)
nick5449 Bronze Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Blacksburg, VA Posts: 96	SMART stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. It pretty much justt keeps track of certain information on your hard drive and if it sees something that may cause data loss it will tell you. It sounds like something is going wrong with your hard drive, but it may not necessarily need replacing right away. Just back up all your data and hope it doesnt crash anytime soon. You should be able to turn it off within the BIOS, you might want to look again.