smart errors are just errors, they can be fromother sources as well. i've had a dodgy sata cable cause partitions to disappear and so on. didn't you say it was ok in another PC?
Well, it showed errors, but then they were fixed.
I'm not sure changing things like leads will be easy, in the server it's mounted in one of these: http://www.icydock.com/product/mb455spf.html
