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WD1600 Caviar SERIAL ATA HELP !

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Polyphemus

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Hello all, I just baught a new HD, a 160 gig Western Digital Caviar Serial ATA. To go with it I also baught Windows XP Home Edition OEM.

I formated and partitionned the drive in NTFS, installed Windows and everything went great for about 2 days. The second day while I was watching a movie on my computer, it completely froze and the re-started.

When it re-started, and every time i re-started after that , in the bios at startup, it gives the following warning :

"Third Master Hard Drive: S.M.A.R.T. Status Bad, Backup And Replace. Press F1 To Resume"

I googled for hours and hours not finding any precice info on what could of happen to do this or what I could do to fix it or even if it was fixable, and then I remembered [Hard] and its very experienced members that helped me several time so here I am.

Since that happened, I tried to use the Windows cd to repair Windows, I tried to format and re-install Windows and nothing work, the setup starts its function and then freezes.

I really have no clue what to do next, If anyone of you know what it is I can do to fix the problem please let me know how, I dont know much about HD's so I am really stuck.

I've been saving up for that HD for a while, and now that I get it, it screws up on me or I am just too ignorent to use it lol.

I appreciate very much any help you can give me and I thank you so very much in advance for your help.

My Computer:

MoBo : Asus P4P8X
CPU : Intel Celeron 2400
RAM : PC 3200 ShikaTronics Twin-X 1 gig 2x512 meg
HDD : Western Digital WD1600 Caviar S-ATA 7200 rpm
GC : Asus Radeon 9600 SE 128 meg
 
You must not have Googled very much then.

It means your hard drive is on the verge of failure, so move your data off it, and then call WD about a replacement. I thought the error message would have been pretty clear as to what was wrong.
 
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