Hi, I am running win 7 32bit on an intel duo-core motherboard. I bought abrand new western digital 1 TB Sata Hard drive in November last year. Did a clean install of the os followed by a clean install of Kapersky Internet Security 2012. The WD hard drive was also reformatted and partitioned into two drives. I use a 250 GB Seagate Sata HD as ny boot drive. All of a sudden windows is reporting eminent hard drive failure. I have run various disk management utilities including chkdsk and can find nothing wrong with the drive. I am currently running HDD Regenerator which aims at rebuilding every sector, but as you can imagine on a 1TB drive, I will retire on pension befoer it completes, is there a cure dor this as I am convinced that it is not the drive.
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I would suggest that you run the hard drive manufacturer diagnostics on the drive.
Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.
Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.
It appears that a SMART error is being reported and these should always be taken seriously. These are physical problems with the drive and cannot be repaired. They may not produce any symptoms or problems that can be detected by most disk utilities, such as chkdsk. chkdsk and similar utilities should not be used when physical problems are suspected. They won't help but may in fact make the problem worse.
Your first priority is the integrity of your data and you do that by making sure you have a backup of all important files. Of course you should have this anyway. Do not delay this because if the drive is failing you may not have much time. Next, run the utility suggested by makinu1der2. Such utilities are designed to detect physical problems with the drive. The drive may not be bad but until determined otherwise it is best to assume it is.
Don't assume that the drive can't be bad because it is new. There are 2 times in the life of most manufactured items when they are most likely to fail:
1. When it is relatively new, usually due to manufacturing defects. That is what warranties are for.
2. When the item is nearing the end of it's useful life.
Your first priority is the integrity of your data and you do that by making sure you have a backup of all important files. Of course you should have this anyway. Do not delay this because if the drive is failing you may not have much time. Next, run the utility suggested by makinu1der2. Such utilities are designed to detect physical problems with the drive. The drive may not be bad but until determined otherwise it is best to assume it is.
Don't assume that the drive can't be bad because it is new. There are 2 times in the life of most manufactured items when they are most likely to fail:
1. When it is relatively new, usually due to manufacturing defects. That is what warranties are for.
2. When the item is nearing the end of it's useful life.
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