Smart Failure Predicted on Primary Slave

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Smart Failure Predicted on Primary Slave


ACPI BIOS REVISION 100.5

Detecting Primary Master- Maxtor
Detecting Primary Slave
Detecting Secondary Master
Detecting Secondary Slave

Smart Failure Predicted on Primary Master
WARNING!"Immediately backup all material
F1-continue
F2-setup

F-1 lets windows start as usual.
F-2 brings you to a "setup screen" in DOS

I recently had a bout with the BLAST Virus. I got rid of
it but in the process I deleted

something that wasn't supposed be. And everytime I tried
to start my pc I got this black

screen with white lettering. THis is the gist of what it
said (above).

So I decided to do a complete recovery with format. The
two options were" To format "C" and

restore the computer to the way you bought it and: To
format "C and D" and restore the

computer to the way you bought it. I chose the first. To
format C and not D (there appeared

to be nothing on "D")(2 hard drives).

Immediately after I choose F-1, the scan disk start to
scan the "C" drive. And after a few

errors it finds, windows XP starts and runs fine. As a
matter of fact, my pc has never run

better. ANd its blazing fast now. I simply love the way
it performs now...EXCEPT if and when

I restart it... it sends me to this DOS screen as
mentioned above. If I can get rid of that,

then I could do the snoopy dance.

A few things to note:

During recovery I was never prompted to use the driver
recovery cd's. Or the application

CD's.

This was happening before I did the recovery. In other
words I deleted something and it

started doing this. I do remember deleting something like
the second user in the windows

explore tree and I think it was under Documents and
settings.

Should I have selected to format "C" and "D"?

My system is a Sony with Windows XP home edition. Pentium
IV. 256 megs of ram. 1500MHz.

If I'm not on the right string here to find help could
someone please direct me to another

place to try. Thanks for reading my problem and thanks in
advance for any help. Just

think...if I could get this problem solved I will have a
computer that I am 100% satisfied

with and that would be a first.

Very sincere

lthompson
 
I'd just go into CMOS setup and disable S.M.A.R.T. on the drive. I don't
trust it, I've seen it enabled and disks fail without any warning and
I've seen it give false warnings when there's nothing wrong with the disk.

Steve
 
Steve, thanks for the reply. Could you give me the steps
to do this? And is it a reversable action if it doesn't
help?
thanks again.

Lenny
 
You might want to investigate running the driver recovery disc....

Bad/incomplete/early drivers manifest in some very strange ways, with WinXP.
Also, update your motherboard drivers through the mfg's site. You don't say
which VAIO you have, so I can't tell you what chipset you have. Either
VIA, or Intel. You can find out by right-clicking 'My Computer' and
expanding IDE controllers. If it says VIA, in the list.......If it says
Intel, in the list.....you get the idea. Update your motherboard drivers,
regardless. For VIA: www.viaarena.com For Intel:
http://support.intel.com However, for Intel boards, you have to know the
exact board model/revision. VIA's chipset drivers are pretty much
universal.


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Lenny stood up at show-n-tell, in [email protected],
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Doug, I'm out of warranty. Its almost 2 years old now.
Ratts! I guess I can use it like it is until my ship
comes in. At this point I'm considering a seaside grave
site. lol.

Thanks for response. These sites are really helpful for
us non-techies.

Lenny
 
Doug, I'm out of warranty. Its almost 2 years old now.
Ratts! I guess I can use it like it is until my ship
comes in. At this point I'm considering a seaside grave
site. lol.

Thanks for response. These sites are really helpful for
us non-techies.

Lenny
Click to expand...

Lenny:
Maxtor drives purchased prior to May 12, 2003 all carry a 3 year
warranty. Those purchased after (with some exceptions as noted on
their web site) carry a 1 year warranty.

Your system manufacturer/builder might have provided a shorter
warranty period (eg. one year parts, 2 years labor) for "his" work,
which generally doesn't change the manufacturer's warranty from
Maxtor.

Nick Goetz
 
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