SMART on hard drives stand for "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting
Technology".  In a nutshell, hard drives run a test on themselves and if
anything is out of spec, it reports an error.  This means that your hard
drive is on it's way out.  Hopefully, you can use the machine long
enough to copy the data to another drive because you will need to
replace the drive that's giving you the errors.

Tony Mayer


Pierson Pelletier wrote:
> i went to start up my cpu one day and it gave m an error message of
>
> SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0:
>
> can you please tell me what this means and what should i do about it.
>
> thank you

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