Imminent hd failure?

[Monster]

in my event viewer..

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.


First I have 5 drives and I have no idea which one windows is complaining
about. I do have 1 maxtor 80gig on a promise tx2 controller that has been
freezing up the system of late, probably due to heat because when I run the
maxtor full diagnostic on it, it found 0 errors. So.. it's probably another
drive. I've run a full scan on 1 ibm hd and quick tests on the other 3
drives and none show any problems. I have a fan blowing over my hds since
then but last night another one of these warnings appeared again. Searching
google it seems only "\Device\Harddisk0\DR0" is the only name windows
gives.. I haven't seen any HardDisk1 or DR1. There is only 1 thing I havent
tried yet, which is run the western digital diagonistic on the WD drive I
have, but for some reason the floppy won't boot their boot disk and I've
tried many boot disks. Is that warning above even useful at all?

 

[Ron Reaugh]

in my event viewer..

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.


First I have 5 drives and I have no idea which one windows is complaining
about. I do have 1 maxtor 80gig on a promise tx2 controller that has been
freezing up the system of late, probably due to heat because when I run the
maxtor full diagnostic on it, it found 0 errors.

Anything that freezing up a system due to heat is a sure sign of imminent
failure.

So.. it's probably another
drive.
Huh?

I've run a full scan on 1 ibm hd and quick tests on the other 3
drives and none show any problems. I have a fan blowing over my hds since
then but last night another one of these warnings appeared again. Searching
google it seems only "\Device\Harddisk0\DR0"

That's likely your boot drive.

is the only name windows
gives.. I haven't seen any HardDisk1 or DR1. There is only 1 thing I havent
tried yet, which is run the western digital diagonistic on the WD drive I
have, but for some reason the floppy won't boot their boot disk and I've
tried many boot disks. Is that warning above even useful at all?

Yah, it's gonna fail.

 

[Impmon]

First I have 5 drives and I have no idea which one windows is complaining
about.

Step 1: disconnect that Maxtor drive. If the problem goes away, it's
time to retire that drive. If you still get the same error message,
that rules out the Maxtor drive. Move on to the next hard drive and
disconnect them until the error message stops coming up.

 

[Monster]

nm I think I found my problem. Using aida to view the SMART data, the
"relocated sector count" is flagged and the drive is predicting an immenent
failure for the 80gig maxtor. Damn.. warranty expired in feb.

 

[toylet]

nm I think I found my problem. Using aida to view the SMART data, the

"relocated sector count" is flagged and the drive is predicting an immenent
failure for the 80gig maxtor. Damn.. warranty expired in feb.

Would you mind to tell me where to download this aida viewer?

 

[Zvi Netiv]

nm I think I found my problem. Using aida to view the SMART data, the
"relocated sector count" is flagged and the drive is predicting an immenent
failure for the 80gig maxtor. Damn.. warranty expired in feb.

Clone the drive ASAP if you want to keep the data. For cloning SW check
www.resq.co.il/resq.php

Regards, Zvi

 

[Michael Cecil]

Would you mind to tell me where to download this aida viewer?

Just get Everest 110 from the guys who did AIDA32.
http://www.lavalys.com/

 

[Al Dykes]

nm I think I found my problem. Using aida to view the SMART data, the
"relocated sector count" is flagged and the drive is predicting an immenent
failure for the 80gig maxtor. Damn.. warranty expired in feb.

Just Curious; Did you get any sort of a popup message, or just an
event log entry ?

 

[Monster]

Just Curious; Did you get any sort of a popup message, or just an
event log entry ?

only event log entries