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A month ago a message appeared on my PC as soon as I switched it on, before
loading windows. The message is" S.M.A.R.T failure in IDE device detected.
Backup your data. To continue press F1 and continuing in this state is at
users risk.etc." Then when I press the F1 key a blue screen with white fonts
appeared listing thousands of bad clusters or corrupted files etc. Then one
week later another message appeared when I tried to access the D drive. The
message is " The drive in D is not formatted. Do you want to format it?" I
used the most recent version of Norton anti-virus and that shows no virus
present. But its says urgent attention is needed. The PC is very slow.
Someone told me that I can never get rid of bad sectors and the only option I
have is to buy a new hard disk. Another one told me that I have to format the
hard disk and reinstall windows. So. what do I have to do to bring back the
PC to the condition it was before. ( It is a pentium III, 128 RAM, 30GB
capacity. i think the BIOS version is very old )
loading windows. The message is" S.M.A.R.T failure in IDE device detected.
Backup your data. To continue press F1 and continuing in this state is at
users risk.etc." Then when I press the F1 key a blue screen with white fonts
appeared listing thousands of bad clusters or corrupted files etc. Then one
week later another message appeared when I tried to access the D drive. The
message is " The drive in D is not formatted. Do you want to format it?" I
used the most recent version of Norton anti-virus and that shows no virus
present. But its says urgent attention is needed. The PC is very slow.
Someone told me that I can never get rid of bad sectors and the only option I
have is to buy a new hard disk. Another one told me that I have to format the
hard disk and reinstall windows. So. what do I have to do to bring back the
PC to the condition it was before. ( It is a pentium III, 128 RAM, 30GB
capacity. i think the BIOS version is very old )