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Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
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Hard disk error

December 27th, 2012, 12:39

Hello,

I have a question about my HDD.

My laptop show me this message: "S.M.A.R.T. Hard Disk detacts Error.
Please consider to back up the hard drive
.
Press ESC continue..."

I am open this HDD and use other computer(by secondary HDD) and format now its work fine. But when i use it on my laptop its show same message. Please tell me how to use this hard disk.
Please, please help me.

Thanks
Shahed

Re: Hard disk error

December 27th, 2012, 13:07

Backup your data and replace the hard drive.

Re: Hard disk error

December 28th, 2012, 21:37

SMART errors are a very bad sign. What's the model number? Most drive manufacturers have software that can pull specific SMART errors so that you can get a better idea of what's failing.
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