Hard disk drive failure! Well kinda????

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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.
 
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.
 
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