Re: SMART alert!!

You probably cannot use that external hard disk as the system drive from which the system boots, through the USB connection. It's unlikely (but not impossible) that the system will boot and run Windows satisfactorily from a USB drive.

You didn't say if it's a 2.5" or 3.5" drive. If it's a 2.5" drive, you can remove it from the USB enclosure and install it into the laptop. You would normally have to reinstall Windows.

What you should do is:

-Get a new hard drive for your laptop
-Remove the laptop's bad hard drive
-Install the laptop's bad hard drive into a desktop using an IDE connection
-Recover all recoverable contents from the laptops's failing hard drive
-Burn that content do CDs or DVDs (don't use RW media, and don't use DVDs unless the laptop can read DVDs)

In this instance, with a failing hard drive, an IDE connection is preferable to a USB connection. Once the drive starts getting "flakey", your chances of success and recover with IDE are slightly better than with USB.


Iterativeend wrote:

Recently my hp pavilion zd7000 series laptop started giving problems.
Mostly over heating and shutting down which wasnt a big problem if i
restart it after it cools down a little. But in addition to that, it
started showing be the "Blue screen of death atleast once a day". But
again after restart it worked properly.

But yesterday i started getting the SMART alert that my harddisk is
goin to fail and that i should back up my data.I can still enter
windows but it freezes after 5 mins.I googled it and found out that i
cant do any damn thing about it other than replace my harddisk.

Anyway i have an external harddisk which can be connected to my laptop
thro a USB port. Can i use this as a harddisk(Assuming that my built-in
harddisk totally fails)? Is it safe for the laptop and the harddisk?Is
there any way around this probelm?

.

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