Smart Failure Predicted on my Acer Aspire 3680

stepzoll · 02-14-2009, 10:18 AM

Everytime I power on my Acer 3680 it says Smart Failure Predicted to such and such disc, it's only to one disc. If I can get the name of the disc I can tell you what it is. But until then I am looking for a little support on what I maybe would have to do, Maybe bring to a repair shop who knows. Also when I do power on and it says that below it says press F1 to continue and when I press that it starts the computer up normal, But then tells me right when I login that I need to back up my Disc Immidately. So got any answers to that?

stepzoll · 02-14-2009, 03:46 PM

It says:

SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0: WDC WD800BEVS-22RST0-(S1)

WARNING: Immediately back-up-your data and replace
your hard disk drive. A Failure may be imminent.

Press F1 to Continue.

Then it brings up Desktop. Only thing I want to know is what I need to do I have backed up all my Data and stuff, but what should I do, Should I bring the Computer to a repair shop or contact acer, Which by the way I have not contacted Acer yet.

**TriggerFinger** · 02-14-2009, 10:28 PM

Signs of a dying drive. Backup your data and consider replacement.

02-14-2009, 10:18 AM	#1 (permalink)
stepzoll Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Windows Vista	Smart Failure Predicted on my Acer Aspire 3680 Everytime I power on my Acer 3680 it says Smart Failure Predicted to such and such disc, it's only to one disc. If I can get the name of the disc I can tell you what it is. But until then I am looking for a little support on what I maybe would have to do, Maybe bring to a repair shop who knows. Also when I do power on and it says that below it says press F1 to continue and when I press that it starts the computer up normal, But then tells me right when I login that I need to back up my Disc Immidately. So got any answers to that?

02-14-2009, 03:46 PM	#2 (permalink)
stepzoll Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Windows Vista	Re: Smart Failure Predicted on my Acer Aspire 3680 It says: SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0: WDC WD800BEVS-22RST0-(S1) WARNING: Immediately back-up-your data and replace your hard disk drive. A Failure may be imminent. Press F1 to Continue. Then it brings up Desktop. Only thing I want to know is what I need to do I have backed up all my Data and stuff, but what should I do, Should I bring the Computer to a repair shop or contact acer, Which by the way I have not contacted Acer yet.

02-14-2009, 10:28 PM	#3 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,832 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: Smart Failure Predicted on my Acer Aspire 3680 Signs of a dying drive. Backup your data and consider replacement. __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE