Your drive failed and hence the S.M.A.R.T. message. As the failure was
intermittent you still have the opportunity to clone your disk. Do it
ASAP because it will fail permanently.

Orf Bartrop

Frank Suszka wrote:

>Peter Wrote:
>
>
>>I started getting an intermittent error apparently generated by my BIOS
>>
>>
>that tells me one of my drives (not the boot drive) has a SMART failure
>
>If memory serves me correctly, this is not a BIOS generated message.
>
>Neither Norton System Doctor, nor the Maxtor diagnostic program reports any
>problem with this drive. Also, the message during boot sometimes occurs for
>several boots, and then no messages are seen for a while.
>
>The disk utilities normally will not report a pending failure of a hard
>drive. If you ran Spin Doctor you might see the error or possible cause.
>
>"SMART technology is used to monitor disk drive degradation, in an effort to
>predict future catastrophic disk failure."
>
>What you are experiencing now is intermittent and to be sure, the SMART disk
>utility on the drive may possibly warn you again. I would plan on replacing
>the drive as soon as possible to avoid unrecoverable data loss.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Frank Suszka
>netTek Computers
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