Re: Hard drive failure message

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Ehlo nass,
You might be right, as I am not long in the field (about two years). However, I cloned dozens of drives with Symantec Ghost and never had a problem. Each time, after cloning with Ghost, I got the operating system problem-free, up and running great (unless the OS files were damaged by bad sectors), hence my advice.

I'm not taking it personally, mate, don't worry. I'm just saying that from my experience, Ghost works wonders. But I am always willing to listen to advice and experience of others :)


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Sincerely,
Jonathan M. Boyko,
TMidEast.Com.



n> Jon
n> I'm not picking up on you here, but if the Old troubled HDD contains
n> that
n> much problems is it Safe To Ghost it to a new HDD?
n> The Answer No, the cloning procedure will copy the errors and the
n> problems
n> to the new HDD and you had it, warning errors again and the new HDD
n> will get
n> screwed up in a smoke!!!
n> You need to make sure before cloning/imaging that the Hard Drive you
n> will clone from doesn't have problems and if there are problems you
n> need to correct them first.
n> n> "Jonathan Boyko" wrote:
n>
v> I am reasonably "techie," but don't understand how I can backup
to a drive that is already failing.

See guys? And you thought I was just paranoid.

visuals4u, go slowly, don't make hurry. What you need is Symantec
Ghost or the like. You need a hard drive (besides the one you already
have), of the similar type to your old HDD (as in SATA or IDE), its
capacity has to be at least as much as of your old hard drive. It
would also help if it would have no partitions on it. Now you need to
connect both cables to your computer (if those are IDE drives, you
will also have to toy with jumpers for the PC to recognize both) and
you'll need a CDROM connected as well. You need to have your Symantec
Ghost bootable CD, boot your PC with it.

Each software has its differences, but you basically want to find
functions like "Clone" or "Copy Disk to Disk". This is the function
that allows you to copy your old, failing hard drive, in its entirety
to the new hard drive.

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Sincerely,
Jonathan M. Boyko,
TMidEast.Com.
v> Thanks everyone! I have downloaded Paragon and I'm preparing to do
v> this myself. I am reasonably "techie," but don't understand how I
can
v> backup to a drive that is already failing. Fortunately, I have an
v> extra removable drive for all of my client files and important
v> information.
v>
v> After starting the program, it is asking if I want to backup the
disk
v> or restore the disk. If restoring solves the problem, I could have
v> started this process as I have done many times before. Nass, is
there
v> a particular reason why I should proceed with backing up my
v> information rather than doing a system restore?
v>
v> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
v>
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:32:45 +0000 (UTC), Jonathan Boyko
<i601st@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ehlo nass,
I agree it'd be better to do it him/her self. However, if the
users
has no
experience - do you really believe it's the best way out? I mean -
he could
happily clone the other way around. What are you going to do then?
If the user has enough knowledge about cloning - great. If not, it
might be dangerous.
There is always danger in doing it yourself, of course. But for
anyone reasonably intelligent, even without experience doing this,
it isn't particularly difficult or dangerous. And visuals4u can
probably ask a more knowledgeable friend to help him, if he feels
more comfortable doing it that way.

The only thing wrong with your suggestion is that it's likely to be
very expensive compared to doing it himself.

n> And the Hard Drive which going bust, do they will
Repair/replace
it?
n> And how much for the MegaBytes of Dad will cost to backup?
n> He/She can do it themsleves if they want, because the HDD if
ture
is
n> dying
n> and need to be replaced with a newer one!
n> "Jonathan Boyko" wrote:
n>
Ehlo visuals4u,
I'd vote for a lab. They would be able to clone your current
disc
to
a new
one (depending on volume of data you have there, it could take
between an
hour and several hours). You won't have to do anything and you'd
get
your
computer back as if nothing happened.
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Sincerely,
Jonathan M. Boyko,
TMidEast.Com.
v> Thanks for replying. Can you tell me step by step how to
back-up
the
v> C drive?
v>
v> "R. McCarty" wrote:
v>
Drives have an internal health measurement, SMART that reads
various
statistics on the drive. When certain values get near the
failure
level the
SMART system (BIOS) will display that message. It's meant to
give a
warning for the user to take backup measures while the drive
is
usable.
"visuals4u" <visuals4u@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
news:ED7A9CD6-E3D2-4044-A131-5A6FC12E96B6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
For the first time after starting my computer, I received a
message
on DOS
saying the following:
"Hard disk failure is imminent. Please back up and replace
your
hard
drive!"
What has happened? I have restored it numerous times due to
viruses
& crashes and have never rec'd this message. Can anyone
explain?
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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