SMART failure predicted on primary master

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jerbert

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yay.

This is a drive that is only one month old. I have had to install, remove, and reinstall windows on it a few times due to various problems, but still - it's only one month old. It's too young to die. Why is this happening?

More info: my computer has had a problem for the last six months: it randomly restarts every so often (usually about once every five hours). When you get back into windows, an error report shows asking me if I want to click a button to send it off into the abyss.

At first I thought this was a hard drive problem - I had a raptor 80gig at the time. When I replaced it with this western digital, I got the same problem. Someone told me it might be the power supply then. Is this contributing to the drive failing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
 
mine restarts every so often because its hitting a high temperature and windows automatically does so to protect my hardware.. what are your temperatures?
 
backup anything on the drive you need then run a thorough scandisk. SMART failures aren't always accurate so keep using the drive until it dies but look around and see what could be causing it.
 
Thank you.

It's not my temps - already verified that with two people to make sure they were normal.

I hope you're right and it isn't accurate. We'll see...
 
okay - ran a disk scan and no errors turned up. I also tried defrag and there were no errors with that either.

The computer continues to work fine, but I still get that error on boot. I'm worried that if I buy another hard drive, it's just going to die too - like I said, this one's only a month old, and I think whatever is causing the computer to restart every once in awhile might have influenced its failure. (I've had this restart problem with two different harddrives, if I didn't already mention that).

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would reinstalling windows maybe make a difference? And if so, what other steps can I take before doing that?

Thank you.
 
I don't think a reinstall will make a difference, SMART is a hardware feature. Something in your computer must be setting it off, it could be the HDD controller, the PSU also can cause problems. Like I said backup anything important you need and use the drive until it dies. If you have a multimeter you might try checking the power your PSU delivers and make sure its all within tolerance (say +/- 5-10% per rail (on the 12V, 5V, 3.3V)
 
I ended up backing up everything and reinstalling windows on a new drive. I'm still getting that annoying restart problem, and I finally figured out how to make it go to a blue screen with an error code instead of just shutting off automatically when the system fails. I got a STOP: 0x0000008e error. I'm waiting for it to shut off again to see if I get the same error twice.
 
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