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Atrocities · #1 August 17th, 2002, 11:21 AM

Do any of you know why my computer upon start up wold tell me to "Primary Slave S.M.A.R.T. fialed. Back up and replace?"

What the hell does S.M.A.R.T. mean?

Fyron · #2 August 17th, 2002, 11:45 AM

I don't know what S.M.A.R.T. is. What is hooked up as the primary slave? A hard drive? CD drive? other thing?

Richard · #3 August 17th, 2002, 02:43 PM

SMART, if I remember right, has something to do with your hard drive.

Atrocities · #4 August 17th, 2002, 02:45 PM

It is a Hard Drive.

Baron Munchausen · #5 August 17th, 2002, 04:27 PM

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
Do any of you know why my computer upon start up wold tell me to "Primary Slave S.M.A.R.T. fialed. Back up and replace?"

What the hell does S.M.A.R.T. mean?

Self Monitoring And Reporting Technology

It's an advanced drive technology to detect failures in the drive before they 'bite' you and you lose everything. You'd better do what it is telling you to do. Backup your data! Something could 'blow up' at any time and you might lose everything on that drive.

Atrocities · #6 August 17th, 2002, 07:44 PM

Thanks. I should have known better than to buy a Western Digital HD from Fry's. Everything I buy from Fry's has to be returned for replacement at least twice.