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    Smart event imminent hard drive failure

    hi ,
    I have a problem with a hard drive Maxtor diamond plus 9 (80 GB / ATA 133) Want to boot it all I have to force his hand by pressing F1 otherwise it puts the following error message:"SMART Failure Predicted on Primary Master: Maxtor 6Y080L0 WARNING immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive A failure may be imminent "

    I try all the formatting partitions in all formats (fat32 NTFS ect ...) but nothing was done, I even tried to remove all partitions just to make one, but this error message still there ..If someone can help me ?
    thank you

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    Re: Smart event imminent hard drive failure

    The purpose of S.M.A.R.T. is to warn a user or system administrator of impending drive failure while there is still time to take preventative action, such as copying the data to a replacement device. Approximately 64% of failures can be predicted by S.M.A.R.T.i think you must go with backup and then try to check disk with windows bootable disk by using chkdsk.

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    ASTRA32 for Windows , SMARTUDM - HDD SMART Viewer

    SMART technology monitors many parameters ,operation of the hard drive: mechanical, electrical, environmental, temporal ...The causes of alert SMART are varied, and classifiable into two categories: critical errors (the only ones reported by the BIOS to startup), and alerts "informative" but not critical. These are often related to MTBF, average usage time before failure estimated by the manufacturer after laboratory tests.If you want more information on your disk, try use dos tools like ASTRA32 for Windows or SMARTUDM - HDD SMART Viewer

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    Re: Smart event imminent hard drive failure

    Here is a few attributes that SMART have found:

    • Reallocated Sector Count: number of bad sectors reallocated
    • Raw Read Error Rate: Error rate reading material
    • Start / Stop Count: number of stops / restarts the engine (MTBF?)
    • Power On Hours Count: number of operating hours (MTBF?)
    • Soft Read Error Rate: Error rate reading software
    • Spin Retry Count: The number of unsuccessful attempts to start the engine
    • Recalibration Retries: Number of test heads recalibration
    • Write Error Rate: rate of clerical errors
    • Throughput Performance: Performance Flow
    • Spin Up Time: time to start engine
    • Load Retry Count: The number of tests after activation parking heads
    • Load / Unload Retry Count: number of tests on / park heads
    • Load-in Time: time of activation of the head after parking
    • Load / Unload Cycle Count: The number of activation / park heads (MTBF?)
    • Seek Error Rate: rate of positioning errors of head
    • Drive Count Power / Power Device: starts on (MTBF?)
    • Power Cycle Count "starts on and off (MTBF?)
    • Ultra ATA / UltraDMA CRC Error Count: Number of error correction Ultra ATA
    • Current Pending Sectors (Count): current number of sectors unstable
    • Seek Time Performance: speed positioning heads
    • Drive Temperature: temperature of the disc
    • Reallocation Event Count: number of sectors reallocation failed and successful
    • Loaded Hours: number of hours actually worked head (MTBF?)
    • Emergency Re-track the number of repositioning emergency head (Case abnormal) (?)
    • ECC On-The-Fly Count: number of error corrections to the flight
    • Hardware ECC Recovered: number of errors repaired hardware ECC
    • Uncorrectable Sector Count: number of bad sectors irreparable
    • Offline uncorrectable error irreparable during analysis period inactivity
    • Disk Shift: shock incurred by the disc (or trays Veiled)
    • G-Sense Error Rate: the number of errors due to shocks
    • Load Friction: mechanical positioning heads
    • Torque Amplification Count: number increases torque turnover engine
    • Power-Off Retract: number of repeated power cuts disc(?)
    • Read Error Retry: trials of correction of errors in reading
    • Head Flying Hours: number of hours actually worked head (MTBF ?)
    • GMR Head Amplitude:?
    • Read Channel Margin: undocumented, most currently used


    The number of possible attributes is 256, not all are used, some are not documented, others specific to a manufacturer ...use this SMART Failure Predicted? to predict your problem and use hdd regenrator to solve your problem

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