Hard Drive predicted to fail

Jon12345 · 16 Jan 2008 at 15:44

I received this event notification:

EVENT # 31958
EVENT LOG System
EVENT TYPE Warning
SOURCE Disk
EVENT ID 52
COMPUTERNAME REPAIR-SERVER
TIME 16/01/2008 15:00:02
MESSAGE The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.

This has scared the hell out of me!

1. How easy is it to transfer everything from this disk to another one? It holds the operating system for a start so its not just drag and drop!

2. Does the hard drive I am transferring to have to be of the same size as the original?

Thanks,

Jon

rpstewart · 16 Jan 2008 at 17:33

1) Acronis True Image will do this without a fuss

2) No, you can use any size you want although smaller isn't a good idea, Acronis will expand the image to fill the new disk if you ask it to.

Jon12345 · 16 Jan 2008 at 18:24

Thanks for that.

Some system info:

My failing drive is a IBM Hitachi Deskstar 180GXP 120GB UATA100 Hard drive.

Motherboard: AOPEN AWRDACPIf

Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
Ultra ATA storage controller

I have seen a drive with this mentioned: PATA (ATA-133) Interface (HITACHI HDT722516DLAT80).

Mine is ATA but that says PATA. Are they the same thing? It says ATA 133 interface. Would that work? Do I need different cables for ATA 133 verses just ATA?

I know these are newbie questions but I am in a desperate attempt to salvage my hard drive.

Help!

Thanks,

Jon

mrk · 17 Jan 2008 at 02:59

Your existing cables will be fine and the drive will run at ATA133 standard which isn't much faster than ATA100 so no loss there really!