Phoenix not so SMART?

[AteKnob]

The Eternal HP POST Splash (http://http:/http://www.pcguide.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/003447.html/) saga contines....

I managed to get rid of the splash and get the diagnostics underneath, and I get this:

SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0: D http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif u> Ã http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gifu9úf (etc, a good wholesome mix of the all groups of the ASCII character set making the entire transcript unreproducable)

WARNING: Immeduately Back-up your data and replace your Hard disk. A failure maybe imminent.

Press F1 to continue

So far there has been no imminent failure. What has buggered up? The Hard disk? Its boot overlays? The BIOS? Feedback would be appreiated.


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µKnob

[This message has been edited by AteKnob (edited 05-11-2002).]

[mjc]

I would grab the drive manufacturer's diagnostics...it is the drive going to the great beyond.

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[AteKnob]

If someone had explained SMART to me, then I would have solved this quite a bit sooner...
It turns out that the hard drive is fairly, um, *explicates*ed ov3r. The core operating files (kernal32,user,msdos.sys,io.sys etc..) where all crosslinked apon themselves multiple times. Each of these clusters had about 500-65,000 files crossed linked onto them, and yet scandisk did not pick up a thing.
So be warned, when SMART starts plying up, you drive is going on the way to being seriously damaged, and there is no return.