Re: [OT] borked hard drive

On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:11:53 -0400, The Relic wrote:

As Bobbie suggested, you should check your connections,
but if that fails, then the next thing you should
check is the cable to the hard drive itself. If you
have a spare cable (IDE or SATA, whichever your HD
uses), swap it to the HD. It seems odd that if the
HD died, it didn't give you some warning first
(S.M.A.R.T. drives, if the feature is enabled, tend
to give out a warning that it is in danger of failing,
and warns you to do a backup).

SMART does often warn you before the hard drive fails (and if it does warn
you, consider that "backup your data NOW, because it'll be gone very
soon"), but it can't predict all failures. In my experience, about a
quarter to a third of drives die without any SMART warning beforehand).

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