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CaptainMoustache
05-05-2005, 02:16 AM
Hard drive Inspector warned me my harddirve was near failure.........But everything seems to be working fine, here's what it says

Hard Drive (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y130/CaptainMousatche/spinup.jpg)
Cricket
05-05-2005, 02:57 AM
Is this for a WD 80GB SE (8MB cache model)? I've seen a few die prematurely not long ago. I would start backing up your important data.

:) Cricket
glc
05-05-2005, 10:00 AM
Run the manufacturer's diagnostics on the drive.
CaptainMoustache
05-05-2005, 03:46 PM
WD's diognostics says it's fine, while hard drive inspector has an exact date on which my HD will die...........I don't belive that
glc
05-05-2005, 04:10 PM
No kidding - Photobucket appears to be down so I can't look at your pic again right now, but as I remember, it essentially said the drive was 100% used up? Something is not right here.
oryx
05-05-2005, 05:02 PM
Get a second opinion from another program. Everest has a SMART drive function in it.
thefultonhow
05-05-2005, 05:47 PM
Is this for a WD 80GB SE (8MB cache model)? I've seen a few die prematurely not long ago. I would start backing up your important data.

Yeah, I've seen a 120 GB, 160 GB, and 180 GB die, and all of them were WD SEs. I also saw a few 2MB cache versions die -- a 10 GB and two 40 GBs. They're not the most reliable drives -- nothing on the level of the IBM DeathStars, but still not up there with, say, Seagate. The only drives that I've had die in recent memory that weren't WDs were very old and rather mistreated.
doubledragon5
05-06-2005, 05:38 PM
If the diagnostic software from the drive manufacture says it is ok, I would go with it.. But do what was mentioned try another program.