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SMART Failure Predicted On Hard Disk

Anonymous
2019-02-05T23:29:26+00:00

I am seeing this message on a restart : WARNING: Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive.  A failure may be imminent.

Press F1 to Continue

So it's pretty straight forward what I need to do and I just want to make sure I do it correctly as it looks as if I still have an opportunity to save my data.  I had been having issues with booting up, but was able to create a boot-able USB Flash Drive to get booted up and then followed the few steps after that for starting the operating system, which never starts.  Windows icon appears as if it's going to start up, but it just continuously tries to spin up and never starts eventually going back to a blank dark screen.  So after going through all these processes, even including the failed 3 boot attempts and going into auto repair, which also just continuously ran and never worked I guess this latest message that I am getting now after completing powering/shutting down and then powering back up to continue to try and troubleshoot what I initially thought were boot disk type issues or items and/or OS issues or items now explains why, I'm assuming, since it looks like my hard disk drive is on the verge of failing. 

Thanks in advance for any help or assistance anyone can proved.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-02-06T00:41:46+00:00

    Hi, MichaelRodriguez9

    My name is Phillip and I am an Independent Advisor. I hope it helps.

    You could also check to see if there are some sectors of the hard drive damaged.

    After you correct the damaged sectors you can enter with Windows Virtual and backup your files and then reinstall Windows

    Take a look to the following link, there is a step by step guide

    https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/hirens-boot-cd-al...

    https://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

    https://mega.nz/#!BhxCkTga!_CvIpoGEcBNG4ijTtvrt...

    http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/

    Process:

    1. Enter your USB drive or CD
    2. Enter Dos Programs
    3. Enter Hard Disk tools
    4. Enter HDAT2 4.53 (Test/Repair Bad Sector)
    5. Then auto & choose your keyboard United states (or wait it will do automatically here)
    6. Press Enter & Press Drive level tests menu
    7. Enter Check and Repair bad sectors
    8. And now it will start, it takes a lot of time, so wait until it finished.

    Or you can also use "Memtest86" to review a problem in Ram Memory, which is there in the same CD

    Standard Disclaimer: There are links to non-Microsoft websites. The pages appear to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the sites that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the sites before you decide to download and install it.

    Hope this helps. Keep us posted on the status for further assistance.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-02-06T00:29:42+00:00

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-02-08T05:50:01+00:00
    1. You can't boot into Windows anyway.
    2. There is damage done ot the hard drive.
    3. If you could do a system image backup, that image will also have the errors in it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-02-06T00:47:56+00:00

    S.M.A.R.T. error does mean to replace the hard drive A.S.A.P. as it is failing failed

    As you said you can't boot into Windows, but you want to save your Data before replacing the hard drive.

    Saving your files:

    You can pull the Hard Drive and put it in a USB Hard Drive Enclosure > plug it into another Computer > and attempt to read and copy over your Data that way.

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    This Program may interest you too.

    "TestDisk, Data Recovery"

    http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

    TestDisk can run under

    • DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box),
    • Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Windows 7 (x86 & x64), Windows 10

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    Or, you can download Knoppix > make a Bootable disk from it > Boot into your System with it (IF your Hardware is all working) > and copy your Data from the Hard Drive that way.

    http://knoppix.net/

    "How to use Knoppix"

    http://lifehacker.com/192982/geek-to-live--rescue-files-with-a-boot-cd

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    "Recover files from Windows drives using Puppy Linux"

    https://www.winhelp.us/recover-files-using-puppy-linux.html

    Cheers.

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  5. Virginia M 40,820 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2019-02-06T14:41:01+00:00

    If you can access Windows then you can use a third party imaging software:

    Windows backup & maybe in the future file history are being deprecated & will eventually be removed, what you’re experiencing may be related to that.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deskto...

    Microsoft recommend using third party software:

    “System Image Backup (SIB) Solution

    We recommend that users use full-disk backup solutions from other vendors.”

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/403482...

    I recommend moving to third party imaging software now before it is removed permanently if you prefer backing up your PC rather than using File history.

    Many users recommend Macrium Reflect free:

    https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

    If not & you have access to another PC then create bootable media from here https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/27180-w... this has several programs which allows you to use imaging backup software & to create their specific boot media in order to restore the image to a new drive.

    Note: This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.

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