Peter Shkabara 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 and to
>press F4 to continue. This is a 40G Maxtor drive that seems to works fine.
>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. Anyone have any
>input on this?
>
>Thank you for any suggestions or information.
>
>Peter
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I would guess your drive is slowly dieing.  I had the same thing happen
for a Maxtor drive - they rma'd it very easy.  You can go to their
website and enter your s/n and it will tell you if you're still in warranty.

Good luck.

Tony Mayer

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