hard drive failing?

[lodingi]

i ran hard drive inspector tonight and it says my brand new 7200.10 drive if failing. i am posting 2 screenies of the alert. i then downloaded and ran seagate's seatools software and it states my drive is fine. what else can i try? thanks.


http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6065/hdfailure1kp1.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdfailure1kp1.jpg)

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/852/hdfailure2xy3.th.jpg (http://img296.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdfailure2xy3.jpg)

[protias]

Have you contacted Seagate yet? I would do that as I would get an answer faster from them than from a message board.

[stevewm]

While SMART is nice to have, its not perfect.

Its not really a set in stone standard. Well at least sometimes manufacturers don't follow it 100% This causes some monitoring programs to mis-interpret results. This can vary by program as well.

If the manufacturers own testing utility says its fine, then I would trust that more than I would a 3rd party program.

I have a similar problem with my WD 74GB Raptor... ActiveSMART says its doing to die soon (and has said so for nearly 2 years now!) Speedfan says everything is good. WD's utils say everything is fine as well.

[lodingi]

Have you contacted Seagate yet? I would do that as I would get an answer faster from them than from a message board.

thanks for the responses. i have contacted seagate's tech support. they said they have no experience with hard drive inspector so they can't comment on its findings. they suggested i run their software (sea tools). i ran sea tools and it says my drive is fine. i backed up my drive with true image. i guess i will wait and see who is right.

[lodingi]

While SMART is nice to have, its not perfect.

Its not really a set in stone standard. Well at least sometimes manufacturers don't follow it 100% This causes some monitoring programs to mis-interpret results. This can vary by program as well.

If the manufacturers own testing utility says its fine, then I would trust that more than I would a 3rd party program.

I have a similar problem with my WD 74GB Raptor... ActiveSMART says its doing to die soon (and has said so for nearly 2 years now!) Speedfan says everything is good. WD's utils say everything is fine as well.

that's how it seems to be playing out. thanks again.

[Sikpupi]

Sorry to dig up an old thread, I also have a 7200.10 (500gig) and HD inspector is warning me that it is about to fail. Apparently it is at 34% health!!

I will check with Seatools tonight and see what that has to say