| TheBlackNaruto said: Hello all! It is me again coming to you in need of assitance now with my HP pavillion Laptop and some issues I am having. First off... My laptop will no longer recognize some USB devices. My external Hard drive and my External DVD burner/drive. And it just happened out of the blue. Does anyone know of a solution that can fix this? Second I am getting this error when ever I boot it up: SMART Hard Drive detects imminent failure. Your hard disk drive is detecting an imminent failure. To ensure no data loss, backup contents and replace this hard disk. I ran a test an everything passed and does everytime. But I still get this error EVERY time I boot up my laptop. I have backed up everything that was on it as well. I was thinking of wiping the HARD DRIVE to see if that will work but figured I would try to get some assistance here on the charts first. So again please any advice will help. Thanks in advance! |
If you see a SMART error, you just need to replace the drive. It may not have failed yet, but it probably will. I would not mirror/clone the current drive to the new drive, since there could be bad sectors on the drive, which could result in corrupt OS files after cloning the disk. Install a new drive, reinstall Windows using the factory installation disks, install the hardware drivers from the factory drivers CD or website, copy your backed up data to the new drive and reinstall your programs.
