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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.com
Device details for ST3250310AS 3.AHA [250.05 Gbytes]

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And 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.com
SMART 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...

as per s.m.a.r.t, it is fail drive, if you have the backup of data and drive is under warranty, just replace the hdd