- Oct 5, 2013
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I have a WDC 500GB Hard drive on my rig and one time when I pressed the restart button because the computer ran slow, an error on the BIOS appeared. It says "Pri Master SMART Hard Drive status BAD Backup and replace. Then I turned off the SMART in the BIOS setup because the error keeps appearing every time I boot the computer. Then I used the computer for a couple of hours (two hours, I guess). Then an error in Windows appeared, saying I have to backup and replace my hard drive.
After reading a lot of forums on how to fix this, they to download a diagnostic tool of the manufacturer of the hard drive to see if this problem really exist because SMART is not 100% accurate.
I ran the diagnostic tool of WDC and I cannot run the QUICK TEST. I didn't finish the extended test because It was taking too long. I saw the values of the SMART and everything was okay except for re-allocated sector count. The values are: ID=5, Value=133, Threshold=140, Worst=133, and Warranty=1.
Should I worry or should I buy a new HDD? Can my HDD be repaired?
After reading a lot of forums on how to fix this, they to download a diagnostic tool of the manufacturer of the hard drive to see if this problem really exist because SMART is not 100% accurate.
I ran the diagnostic tool of WDC and I cannot run the QUICK TEST. I didn't finish the extended test because It was taking too long. I saw the values of the SMART and everything was okay except for re-allocated sector count. The values are: ID=5, Value=133, Threshold=140, Worst=133, and Warranty=1.
Should I worry or should I buy a new HDD? Can my HDD be repaired?
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