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    Hard drive issue

    I have a presario 2500 lap top that I was just given to me. When you boot up you get a message that say " Smart Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0: Toshiba Mk4021GAS-(PM) Warning: Immediatly back-up your data and replace you hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent. Press F1 to continue"

    I am assuming the answer is obvious but wanted to talk with you people before I went and purchased a new hard drive. Is there something else I should try first like reloading XP or something? Thanks for your help

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    You can possible disable that warning, but your best bet is as you state. Time for a new hdd.

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    I just so happens that I have another hard drive that I stuck in. The previous one was a Mk4021gas and I one I replaced it with was a mk6021gas which I think the only difference is on is a 60 gig and one is a 40 gig. But I got the warning with the new hard drive also

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    is there a way to reset the warning. I put in a different hard drive that should be good but that message comes up even before windows installs

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    See if it can be disable in the BIOS [set up is another name for it]

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    I went into bios and I can see that SMART was enabled but I would not let me tab down to it

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    Sorry, but that is the best I know what to do.

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