Win 7 stating Hard drive failure

koolpc · 27 Jul 2010 at 21:45

Every now again, Win 7 pops upa message along the lines that my hard drive is about to fail and to backup! This i am doing as i write this.

Should there be a cause for concern?

The drive is not that old: Samsung F3 500g

jbloggs · 27 Jul 2010 at 22:30

Run Samsung's diagnostic utility on it and see what that reports...

koolpc · 27 Jul 2010 at 23:14

Cheers. Will it work with win7 64bit?

rpstewart · 28 Jul 2010 at 08:56

There should be a ISO version that you just burn onto a CD/DVD and boot from so that it runs in it's own OS.

edscdk · 28 Jul 2010 at 09:24

I would simply ignore the message, if the drive fails you make regular backups anyway.... don't you?

(actually for the £35 id bin the drive and get a new one)

blaineoliver · 28 Jul 2010 at 09:57

Turn off smart monitoring in the bios and it shouldnt come up.

mrtckane · 28 Jul 2010 at 10:09

i'd buy a new one and then RMA the old drive.

the last time windows 7 showed me that message, the drive in question had already failed, i was able to back it up though.

edscdk · 28 Jul 2010 at 10:11

blaineoliver said:
Turn off smart monitoring in the bios and it shouldnt come up.

just like homer simpson putting a plaster over the red engine fault light in his car!

koolpc · 28 Jul 2010 at 15:57

PC still ok, at the moment. I have backed everything up.

matthab · 30 Jul 2010 at 21:04

edscdk said:
just like homer simpson putting a plaster over the red engine fault light in his car!

Im sorry but I lol'd at this. SMART is there for a reason.

koolpc · 30 Jul 2010 at 21:19

Well, not had that message up for a day or do now. Glitch?

matthab · 30 Jul 2010 at 21:22

Sometimes the drive may react in a way windows 7 associates with being a dieing drive. If I was you id make weekly back ups and monitor it for a bit.

Ive simulary had windows 7 not pick up on dead drives.

koolpc · 30 Jul 2010 at 21:42

Thanks. I have done a good backup just in case

koolpc · 5 Oct 2010 at 09:20

The message has started to pop up more often now!! Everything is backed up. Done some HD tests but nothing!!

Anyone think this is an OS glitch?

KIA · 5 Oct 2010 at 10:04

See what Ubuntu reports.

It's great and reading SMART data and notifying the user.

kae2 · 5 Oct 2010 at 10:13

Have you run Samsungs own utility? ESTool? You burn it to a disk then boot from it.

Win7 didn't detect my dieing Samsung F3 1tb, but the ESTool gave a huge list of errors with which I was able to RMA (although it took nearly 5 weeks for a new one to arrive).

Andy.

koolpc · 5 Oct 2010 at 22:16

kae2 said:
Have you run Samsungs own utility? ESTool? You burn it to a disk then boot from it.

Win7 didn't detect my dieing Samsung F3 1tb, but the ESTool gave a huge list of errors with which I was able to RMA (although it took nearly 5 weeks for a new one to arrive).

Andy.

Can't find a 64bit version!! Ordinary one does not work with 64bit.

sjcf1 · 5 Oct 2010 at 22:31

Would it still pick it up if it was run in 32bit Win XP on a Virtual Machine.

Reason being, if you had Win 7 Pro, you can install XP pro 32bit on a VM, possibly showing hard drive issues.

koolpc · 5 Oct 2010 at 22:57

Got win 7 home prem.

kae2 · 5 Oct 2010 at 23:22

koolpc said:
Can't find a 64bit version!! Ordinary one does not work with 64bit.

eh?

Makes no difference, the ESTool is self booting, so you just boot from the CD....