Hi, I have Compaq Presario desktop which I bought 3 years back. Recently I found it has BIOHD-8 error and I downloaded the low level format tool.... But I don't know what to do with it and it is showing the internal error, following are the Device Details:
Current date and time: 3/30/2011 12:10:51 PM
Hard Disk Low Level Format Tool 2.36 build 1181;
http://hddguru.comDevice details for ST3250310AS 3.AHA [250.05 Gbytes]
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http://forum.hddguru.comAnd Following are the S.M.A.R.T. attributes:
Current date and time: 3/30/2011 12:11:52 PM
Hard Disk Low Level Format Tool 2.36 build 1181;
http://hddguru.comSMART Attributes for ST3250310AS 3.AHA [250.05 Gbytes]
Attribute Current Worst Raw Note
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Att: 1 Read error rate 100 253 0
Att: 3 Spin up time 97 97 0
Att: 4 Number of spin-up times 98 98 2852
Att: 5 Reallocated sectors count 100 100 5
Att: 7 Seek error rate 84 60 298203123
Att: 9 Power-on time 97 97 2995
Att: 10 Spin-up retries 100 99 0
Att: 12 Start/stop count 98 98 2717
Att: 184 Unknown 100 253 0
Att: 187 Unknown 1 1 1389
Att: 189 Unknown 100 100 0
Att: 190 Unknown 56 49 740294700
Att: 194 HDA Temperature 44 51 44 (44 degrees)
Att: 195 Hardware ECC recovered 69 55 125612315
Att: 197 Current pending sectors 99 99 29
Att: 198 Offline scan UNC sectors 100 100 0
Att: 199 Ultra ATA CRC Errors 200 200 0
Please help... Also, I'm still under 3 years warranty and can get my HDD replaced for free and I already have backed up all the data but still I'd like to continue with this HDD if possible.. Please sugggest what will be the corrrect thing to do...