Hard disk drive failure! Well kinda????

Gunni Parker · 19 Mar 2009 at 11:13

Hi all, when booting up my PC I get this command failure!

sec slave hard disk S.M.A.R.T command failure

press f1 to continue.

So i do and boot up as normal no other issues detected. Initially thinking it was my Spinpoint drive with the issue I downloaded the correct samsung diagnostic tool onto a cd and booted up to run a report to find the failure. However this resulted in failure as it said i had insufficent memory. Therefore on futher detection it appeared that it was my primary drive that had the issue 'the raptor' so I downloaded the windows based version of the diagnostic tool from the western digital website. I ran both quick and indepth test on both hard disks and both reports came back fine. I have checked all cables are firmly plugged in, but have not changed the sata 2 cable. 'is this worth doing?' Any other ideas??? Thanks.

bremen1874 · 19 Mar 2009 at 11:35

I'd try running something like SpeedFan and have a look at what the S.M.A.R.T. information actually contains.

inph · 19 Mar 2009 at 11:40

Use one of the many tools to examine and report the SMART data kept on the drive (if the drives SMART status is still readable) and you'll have more of an idea what's wrong.

Having backups right now would be a good idea.

Gunni Parker · 19 Mar 2009 at 12:37

bremen1874 said:
I'd try running something like SpeedFan and have a look at what the S.M.A.R.T. information actually contains.

Speed fan??? and what tools would you recommend?

Gunni Parker · 20 Mar 2009 at 16:10

Anyone? Seriously bugging me. :-(

knightrider. · 20 Mar 2009 at 16:19

N1ghthawk97 said:
Speed fan??? and what tools would you recommend?

Speedfan is a tool. Gives system information, including what's in your S.M.A.R.T info.

Gunni Parker · 22 Mar 2009 at 20:25

It was a faulty Sata power connector. Issue solved.

knightrider. · 22 Mar 2009 at 20:56

Odd. Was it not giving any power, or just not enough power?
Wouldn't have been my first guess lol.

Gunni Parker · 23 Mar 2009 at 14:53

I had to juggle me wires around as it was stretching from the top rom drive to the very bottom hardrive. I guess it must have been dammaged from that. Replaced the cable and it has been great.