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S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive failure test?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 20261423 views
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I'm working on my mom's computer and she freaked because it told her "There was an imminent hard drive failure about to occurr." I did some digging and found it was related to the S.M.A.R.T. technology in the hard drive. The message appears every time you boot, but it will still let you boot into W…

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Fix for: S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive failure test?

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Yes. Stop using it. Take the drive out and attempt to back up everything you want. A HDD should not be used once it's started to fail (Once it's failed, it'll start failing more and more and more) The drive could die now, or it could die in a year's…

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