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[SOLVED] My WD Caviar® WD300AA fails smart test
I tried to search the forum before posting and could not get anything so.
My WD Caviar® WD300AA fails the smart test. My windows install and all my data is on the drive. I have a second drive of the same capacity installed also. Therefore I have several questions.
1) Should I transfer all my data onto the other drive, and use the one that is failing as a storage drive or just trash it? The drive does not seem to be operating abnormally. I have the manufacturer's hard drive tools to do the move.
2) I was thinking about getting a sata drive of 300G or larger anyway.
Would I set up partitions on it like on an IDE drive? If so I would configure it as 15G Primary WinXP, 1st logical 15G for a possible Vista install. Remaining space to split into 2, one to be 30G and set up as a mirrored raid with my existing 30G that is ok or not possible? A noobe I'm not but just not all that sure if I'm doing thing correctly or trying to do too much.
Thanks
Mark :wave:
I tried to search the forum before posting and could not get anything so.
My WD Caviar® WD300AA fails the smart test. My windows install and all my data is on the drive. I have a second drive of the same capacity installed also. Therefore I have several questions.
1) Should I transfer all my data onto the other drive, and use the one that is failing as a storage drive or just trash it? The drive does not seem to be operating abnormally. I have the manufacturer's hard drive tools to do the move.
2) I was thinking about getting a sata drive of 300G or larger anyway.
Would I set up partitions on it like on an IDE drive? If so I would configure it as 15G Primary WinXP, 1st logical 15G for a possible Vista install. Remaining space to split into 2, one to be 30G and set up as a mirrored raid with my existing 30G that is ok or not possible? A noobe I'm not but just not all that sure if I'm doing thing correctly or trying to do too much.
Thanks
Mark :wave: