Hard drive error message

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Limp Gawd
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In Vista I got an error message telling me that my hard drive is failing.

Its only about 30 days old, so I can exchange it for another one, but I'm wondering what program I should use to verify that it is actually failing before going through all the trouble.

Here is the warning I got.

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The hard drive is a backup drive, and the important stuff is mirrored on other drives, so if it did fail it wouldn't be that bad, but I don't want to have a 30 day old defective drive.

Thanks
 
Didn't know Vista sent out eeriely scary messages like that. :eek:

I'd run the diagnostics, back up my data, and start filing a return shipment.
 
Syntax Error said:
Didn't know Vista sent out eeriely scary messages like that. :eek:

I'd run the diagnostics, back up my data, and start filing a return shipment.
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It's more than likely just Vista reporting data from SMART within the drive. The BIOS on the OP's system may also report a SMART problem on subsequent boots.

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SMART monitors a number of parameters within the drive (retry count, calibration errors, read/write errors, and a number of other things). When any of the monitored values exceeds a threshold defined by the drive firmware, it triggers a warning that is reported to anything that polls SMART data, in this case Windows Vista. It is definitely time to backup if necessary, and proceed to RMA if the drive is still under warranty.
 
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