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From: Eddie G on 12 Feb 2006 20:48 Hi. I ran the Everest utility and on my backup hard drive I have the following with a red "x" next to it... 0A Spin Retry Count 223 215 215 31 Pre-Failure: Imminent loss of data is being predicted How serious is this? This is a back up disk with nothing important (unless my primary disk goes bad, too). Thanks!! Eddie G
From: Rod Speed on 12 Feb 2006 21:14 Eddie G <mickeddie@(removeme)comcast.net> wrote > I ran the Everest utility and on my backup hard drive I have the > following with a red "x" next to it... > 0A Spin Retry Count 223 215 215 31 Pre-Failure: Imminent loss of data is > being predicted > How serious is this? Pretty serious, it means that the drive doesnt spin up reliably and that can indicate that the drive may well die. Could also be a weak power supply too, not necessarily just the drive dying. > This is a back up disk with nothing important > (unless my primary disk goes bad, too). Then its pretty safe to carry on regardless until it does die. Bit more risky to keep running like that with a bad power supply.
From: Eddie G on 12 Feb 2006 21:23 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:45a8d8F5nf8aU1(a)individual.net... > Eddie G <mickeddie@(removeme)comcast.net> wrote > >> I ran the Everest utility and on my backup hard drive I have the >> following with a red "x" next to it... > >> 0A Spin Retry Count 223 215 215 31 Pre-Failure: Imminent loss of data is >> being predicted > >> How serious is this? > > Pretty serious, it means that the drive doesnt spin up reliably > and that can indicate that the drive may well die. Could also be > a weak power supply too, not necessarily just the drive dying. It just so happens I have a new PSU on the way as I'm upgrading my video card. But if it was that, wouldn't it affect other components on my system?
From: Rod Speed on 12 Feb 2006 22:30 Eddie G <mickeddie@(removeme)comcast.net> wrote: > "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:45a8d8F5nf8aU1(a)individual.net... >> Eddie G <mickeddie@(removeme)comcast.net> wrote >> >>> I ran the Everest utility and on my backup hard drive I have the >>> following with a red "x" next to it... >> >>> 0A Spin Retry Count 223 215 215 31 Pre-Failure: Imminent loss of >>> data is being predicted >> >>> How serious is this? >> >> Pretty serious, it means that the drive doesnt spin up reliably >> and that can indicate that the drive may well die. Could also be >> a weak power supply too, not necessarily just the drive dying. > It just so happens I have a new PSU on the way as I'm upgrading my > video card. But if it was that, wouldn't it affect other components > on my system? Not necessarily, it could be that the drive is more sensitive to the rail sagging when the drive is trying to spin up than other components. Could also be something as basic as the metal tunnels in the power connector that the pins go into opening up over time. The quick check for that last is to swap the power connector with one off one of the optical drives and see if spin retry count continues to increase. No need in your case because the new PSU will check that possibility too.
From: Jonny on 13 Feb 2006 09:13 Ran into this anamoly, at least on this system. In XP SP2, while running Everest, all is normal for SMART. In 98SE, while runing Everest, shows failure for SMART for two onboard ide hard drives. SMART is enabled in bios setup, nothing noted during boot regarding SMART failure indication. -- Jonny "Eddie G" <mickeddie@(removeme)comcast.net> wrote in message news:EeudndUhtIIReHLenZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d(a)comcast.com... > Hi. > > I ran the Everest utility and on my backup hard drive I have the following > with a red "x" next to it... > > 0A Spin Retry Count 223 215 215 31 Pre-Failure: Imminent loss of data is > being predicted > > How serious is this? This is a back up disk with nothing important > (unless my primary disk goes bad, too). > > Thanks!! > > Eddie G >
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