The S.M.A.R.T.. message pretty much says it all. The disk may be become
unreadable, but it can't harm your system.


Venkat Viswanathan wrote:
> Hi all, A friend gave me a suspect samsung HDD 40 gig. I slaved it to my maxtor and booted up. On came a warning from the S.M.A.R.T feature of my mobo.
>
> <<< slave samsung hard disk in bad state. backup your data and replace disk.imminent failure expected. F1 to continue and del to enter setup >>>>
>
> I continued, it booted ok, I shut down, and removed the samsung.
>
> My questions:--
>
> (1) will it be safe to attempt a recovery of some data if not all, or will it crash my whole system?
>
> (2) if safe which method? access the samsung, locate the files, drag and drop to my hdd? (the problem here is the samsung has win xp pro and my o/s is win 98 SE.) will this have any effect?
>
> (3) I have drive image version 4.0 (ex partition magic but now symantec I think)
> will it be better and faster (before the samsung crashes) if I take this route.
>
> (4) or do I freeze it(samsung) for sometime and attempt recovery and will the chances be better.
>
> (5) any other safe method?
>
> All I want is not to crash my system in the process.
>
> Any input will be gratefuly accepted.
>
> Good Day to all----Venkat
>
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