Hey all,

 

 

 

I built this computer in June.. haven't had any problems. Recently though, upon startup, I am faced with this message:

 

 

 

IDE Channel 2 Master Hard Disk - S.M.A.R.T. status bad. Failure may be imminent.

 

 

 

I have this hard drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822148140

 

 

 

Any advice on what to do? I can press F1 and bypass it.. and everything works fine from that point forward. Just worried about a crash. I'm backing my stuff up now again as we speak.

 

 

 

Thanks!

Download and install HD Tune, which is a free Hard Disk monitoring/testing utility. You can check S.M.A.R.T. values on the Health tab, which should help you determine what is wrong (it could just be exceeding Power On Hours (old drive?) or it might be actual disk damage causing sectors to be reallocated). Post a screenshot here if you require further help.

Download and install HD Tune, which is a free Hard Disk monitoring/testing utility. You can check S.M.A.R.T. values on the Health tab, which should help you determine what is wrong (it could just be exceeding Power On Hours (old drive?) or it might be actual disk damage causing sectors to be reallocated). Post a screenshot here if you require further help.

 

 

 

Thanks Collective. The Health tab is currently empty - is there a button I press to run a scan or something like that?

 

 

 

Running an error scan now.

It should show automatically. Is the drive shown as supporting S.M.A.R.T. in the Info tab?

 

 

 

Also double-check that S.M.A.R.T. isn't disabled in the BIOS (I'd expect it's not due to the warning, but check anyway).

 

 

 

Oh, and make sure you have the right drive selected, of course :P

 

 

 

There are alternatives to HD Tune which might work; I believe Belarc Advisor can check S.M.A.R.T. status, too.

This probably sounds completely silly to all the advanced techies out there... but it turns out my secondary IDE master is my DVD-drive. My hard drive is on SATA 1. So why WOULD a DVD drive have S.M.A.R.T.?

 

 

 

Anyways, I have no idea why this is showing up now - and it won't continue to boot without my pressing F1. Any clues?

 

 

 

Thanks again, Collective.

Any ideas out there? :)

I have no idea why a DVD drive would report any kind of S.M.A.R.T. status. You should be able to disable S.M.A.R.T. in BIOS, probably in the Secondary Master (detection) settings.

There was an option for disabling the SMART status in the BIOS but for hard drives only. I looked for the secondary IDE/Master settings and there wasn't an option in there that I saw that looked right.

 

 

 

Pretty weird.