Hi ! My hard disk has problems. Being a slave, I turn on my pc I get "primary slave hardisk-SMART status bad backup and replace". once loaded the system (windows XP sp2) click "My Computer" and I get "Local Disk F:" and in properties I get a capacity of 110 GB (as my 40 gb disk) when I double click on the disk I get the icons with names unknown in all folders. I do not want to lose my information of my record but not how to recover my s n. information further questions regarding the operation of my DD I can do get algae Email Address. Thank you. Lillo Gonzalo Munoz (Chile).

your hard disk getting damage so take back up fast and replace hard disk with new hard disk smart test when hard disk want when hard disk surface going some hardware problem

S.M.A.R.T. is a way to tell if your hard drive is going to die soon. Since it says BAD, it means the hard drive is going to die soon so you should backup all your data and then replace the hard drive with a new one or a working one that isn't dying.

SMART is to measure your Hard Disk Drive health. This warning tells you to backup important stuff and prepare to replace the HDD. If the computer can no longer boot into Windows, connect the HDD to another PC or you can also get one of those HDD enclosures which will let you connect the HDD to other PC's through USB connection so you can backup your files.

Hope this help, goodluck!

the hard drive is damaged. install a new hdd and connect the old one as a secondary so you can extract your files after you reload the new one.

Hi rmirish,

The hard drive has built in SMART diagnostics to check itself to make sure all is well. If the SMART is showing status BAD then the hard drive is either either starting to go out. Your best bet is to try to backup any data (if you have any) on the hard drive and replace the hard drive.

Hope that helps,

Take care,

Michael

American Megatrends is telling us our Pri Master Hard disk: S.M.A.R.T. is bad, backup and replace.

By questions and answers from above, is this telling us to replace hard drive?

A failure message from the SMART system of this nature indicates that a catastrophic hard drive failure could be imminent. Without delay, back up ANY data you want to keep. This error isn't going to go away, and is being reported by the drive controller.

Whilever you can access the drive, move any data you want onto another media (such as DVD or external USB hard drive) because chances are it's not going to work much longer. You need to look at buying a new hard drive as soon as you possibly can, and migrating the data to it.

Files and Settings Transfer Wizard will be able to backup your data to another media.

here's what you should do.. first, as mentioned, you should backup all your important files in another drive or an optical drive... once you have done it, format your hard drive and perform scans to check the error.. during scan, you will see errors on it and you may not be able to fix it since the drive is internally damaged.. purchase a new one ok? just make sure to backup all your files..

Hi Raysgirl

Happy Holydays
you may have to take out the the hard drive, and buy new one for this particula BAD SECTOR, error on HD. you also have to move the pin, on the CD rom to Cable Select, and left the IDE hard disk to Master.(PIN)
that should work, and put in bios AUTODETECT for all devices in channels. IDE 1 and IDE 2
good luck