S.M.A.R.T. status bad Backup and Replace

[Vagabon]

I am getting this message when I boot up my computer. I know what it
means, I know what S.M.A.R.T. is, Self-Monitoring, Analysis and
Reporting Technology. What I was wanting to know is how to back up that
hard drive.
It's more complicated than you think. It is running old trusty Windows,
which won't allow you to boot of the S.M.A.R.T. is bad, and the CMOS
doesn't have the option to turn it off. I have serveral other computers
to which I could hook up a IDE/EIDE to and copy the harddrive to an new
harddrive but alas, it is ATA. The harddrive is a little over a year
old and is just past it's warrenty, that strikes me as strange. It is a
180GB(I think) Western Digital. I think (from the sound) that is it
spinning way too fast, much more than normal. Does anyone have any
suggestions on how to go about repairing it (doubtful) or transferring
the data to another harddrive.

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[Rod Speed]

I am getting this message when I boot up my computer.
I know what it means, I know what S.M.A.R.T. is,
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology.

What I was wanting to know is how to back up that hard drive.

It's more complicated than you think. It is running old trusty
Windows, which won't allow you to boot of the S.M.A.R.T. is bad,

That is just plain wrong. No version of Win operates like that.

and the CMOS doesn't have the option to turn it off.

Dont believe that either.

I have serveral other computers to which I could hook up a IDE/EIDE
to and copy the harddrive to an new harddrive but alas, it is ATA.

Those are different names for the same thing.
Maybe you mean that the new drive is SATA.

The harddrive is a little over a year old and is just
past it's warrenty, that strikes me as strange.

It shouldnt, coincidences happen.

It is a 180GB(I think) Western Digital. I think (from the sound)
that is it spinning way too fast, much more than normal.

Thats very unlikely. It may however have developed
a bad bearing and its that that makes it sound bad.

That may be an entirely separate question to the SMART status.

Does anyone have any suggestions on
how to go about repairing it (doubtful)

If its just bearing noise, you can safely ignore
that as long as you can tolerate the noise.

or transferring the data to another harddrive.

You'll have to clear up the question of whether its a SATA drive first.
If its got a wide ribbon cable, you can put it into one of the other PCs
any time you like and move the data off that drive while you can.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I am getting this message when I boot up my computer. I know what it
means, I know what S.M.A.R.T. is, Self-Monitoring, Analysis and
Reporting Technology. What I was wanting to know is how to back up that
hard drive.
It's more complicated than you think. It is running old trusty Windows,
which won't allow you to boot of the S.M.A.R.T. is bad,

Windows can do that? Are you sure? I though Windows was entirely
unaware of the SMART status. It this perhaps the BIOS? If so,
you should be able to disable the monitoring.

and the CMOS
doesn't have the option to turn it off. I have serveral other computers
to which I could hook up a IDE/EIDE to and copy the harddrive to an new
harddrive but alas, it is ATA.

IDE/EIDE and ATA are the same toady. Do you perhaps mean ''SATA''?

The harddrive is a little over a year
old and is just past it's warrenty, that strikes me as strange. It is a
180GB(I think) Western Digital.

Well, no surprise there.

I think (from the sound) that is it
spinning way too fast, much more than normal.

Definitely not. More likely you get bearing noise.

Does anyone have any
suggestions on how to go about repairing it (doubtful)

Throw it away and buy something not from WD.

or transferring the data to another harddrive.

What about adding another HDD and booting from that? E.g.
one of the system drives of the other computers you mentioned?

Alternatively get an SATA controler and put that into one
of the other computers.

Or, if you have some Linux skills, boot from a Knoppix CD and use
that to transfer you data off, e.g. over the network. Depends
on whether you have NTFS and what the support-status of
NTFS unter Knoppix is. I have heard that for reading it
works well now, but I dont use MS "incompatibility technology"
in the form of NTFS.

Arno