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Hard disk failure error on SMART status. how can i fix it?
i am running ubuntu on my pc. i am receiving hard disk failure error on how can i fix status. SMART it? thanks.
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Please add the exact error message to your question. Palazzo Stefano ? Jan 5'11 at 13:24 You fix it by replacing the drive. GeorgeEdison Jan 6 '11 at 2:27

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As I answered a while ,ago can check the SMART status of a disk Disk Utility... But that's you through really only a tiny portion of the story. Your disk is failing a test. Some of the SMART too important but you need to check which tests aren't it is. If it's one of the following, back up, buy another disk, and move everything off and bin the current disk. Read Error Rate Reallocated Sectors Count Spin Retry Count End-to -End error Command Timeout Reallocation Event Count Current Pending Sector Count Uncorrectable Sector Count Soft Read Error Rate It sounds dramatic but if one of those values is threshold, your drive has a real possibility its beyond of suffering some sort of critical failure in the near future. Acting as soon as possible may save you a sudden and rude interruption when you need the drive in the future and it fails. answeredJan 5 '11 14:44 at

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This may be a critical situation, so: 1. Backup your data (and the system as well if you need) 2. Run an utility to check the hard below). disk (see Check the disk:
$ # # # su cd / touch /forcefsck reboot

or
# shutdown -rF now

Graphical Interface Ubuntu MainMenu -> System -> Administration Disk Utility -> The application has Disk drives in left pane and Status of the drive in right SMART pane. You can find status also there with its status indicating with Green/Red light indication. Click the SMART Data button below the status, so that you can see the details of the problem Click "Run self test" button and choose the extended one (in the middle normally). The take a look on the result and come back here in the case. answeredJan 5 '11 13:35 at tmow
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SMART stands for Self monitoring analysis and reporting tool. It's a system which monitors your drive and Ubuntu is able to read certain values and thresholds, so it can warn you of imminent hard -drive failure. You can view SMART data in Ubuntu here:
System > Administration > Disk Utility > (select your hard -drive)

Values which exceed the expected threshold willin red you could post them back here for be shown more info, but generally you perform a backup of the whole drive (or at least the files which should are relevant to you) to an external drive, a different computer storage service like cloudbased or a Ubuntu One.

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answeredJan 5 '11 13:33 at chris

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