smart failure on hard drive

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  • James_Dongon
    PCHF Member
    • Apr 2023
    • 1

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    smart failure on hard drive

    please help.
    smart failure on hard drive. i try to off the smart self test it works but the problem now is when the pc start it hangs and become blue screen error. please help me
  • Bruce
    PCHF Member
    • Oct 2017
    • 10697

    #2
    SMART failures usually are over zealous and flag a filing drive way too early before it actually does die.
    but not always, and maybe not in this case - it’s why backups were invented!!!

    that drive is now unreliable and should be replaced.
    but your first priority is to recover any data you want, and since it sounds like the drive to too far gone for Windows to load from it, that leaves removing the drive and installing it into an external USB caddy.

    you can then plug that into any other PC ands recover your data - as long as the drive is still readable.

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    • Rustys
      PCHF Member
      • Jul 2016
      • 7862

      #3
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