ASUS Laptop Question

[Horse4190]

I have ASUS Laptop with a windows 7 installed. Everytime I switched it on, the following message appears:-
- Port O: Hitachi HTS545050A........
- S.M.A.R.T Status Bad, Backup and Replace
- Press F1 to Resume....

Is anybody knows how to git rid of this please? Need help please. Thank you

[Terryl]

It can mean two things.

One is that the S.M.A.R.T. setting for that drive in your BIOS is on and that drive does not support it, you can switch it off if you know how to get to your BIOS settings.

Two, is that your hard drive is about ready to go FUBAR, (or has gone by by already) and you should get a new one ASAP.

I think it's #2, so I would head out to a computer shop and have them install a new drive and transfer the data over to it. (Unless you have a way to do this yourself by cloning the new drive from the old one)

[nob0dy]

i say she's gone ....

@Horse4190 .... every time you turn it on you're killing it more & more ......... u can make a image of your whole hard drive ..... as long as you have enough room to put it somewhere .......

most people who have laptop rely on the internal fan .... & never use a laptop cooler ....... heat kills all electronics ..... & the manufacturers is making everything thinner , tvs , laptops , store bought pcs ..... none of them have efficient space to breath/cool ...

if it is the hard drive ... put it in a freezer bag , and freeze it for a day or two , that will give you about 3-4 hours to get you're personal data off of it to a external or usb w/e you're using to back up .........

[Terryl]

And I would look into a Solid State Drive, it will out perform (speed wise) any standard hard drive. (walking vs light speed)

You can look for some SSD install packages, they have a USB to SSD interface cable and software that will allow you to clone your old one to the new one, but be sure to get one that matches you current hard drive capacity, (500 GB) it may be a bit more costly but you will be flabbergasted with the boot up speed and performance speed of the SSD.

[Horse4190]

If I replace the Hard Drive with the new one, do you think will solve the issue and I will be able to use again? I found some in ebay for $30 and I think its worth it. Thanks

[Anubis]

If it is the HD that is faulty then yes your issue will be solved. You will need to install Windows on it. You can purchase a HD case like this
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/insignia-2-5-serial-ata-hard-drive-enclosure/5820005.p?id=1219165149787&skuId=5820005 and put the old drive in it and you should be able to transfer the things you want from the old drive to your new drive in the laptop.
Just remember when you are installing windows on the new hard drive you will need a license key to activate it. If your are installing the same version of Windows that came on the machine you can use the key found on the bottom of the laptop.

Just out of curiosity, have you tried to reformat the drive and do a fresh install of Windows to see if that solves the issue?

[Terryl]

If he ghosts or clones the drive he should not need the key again.

And I don't think a fresh start will fix the error on the drive, it looks to be a hardware problem if the SMART is reporting it as bad.

Bad problem with some of the newer setups is that they don't come with reinstall disks, it's all on a "D" partition on the hard drive, if he didn't create a recovery disk when the unit was new then he may wipe out all recovery info (by mistake) if a format is done.

If I were him I would take it to someone that can do this for me, he can get a new drive at Best Buy and have them swap it out at their Geek Squad desk.(If he has one near him)

If you swap it out with the same size and type of drive there would be far less problems as far as hardware errors with the laptop system drivers.

But in some cases the drive needs to be removed from the system to even get to the data and a new drive installed, then the old info can be recovered and sent to the new drive, I have this type of setup, I remove the drive with the problems and do a scan and recover on my hard-drive analyzer, then dump the data from the old drive to a new drive.

[Anubis]

I figured hardware as well but I ran into this issue before and I F-disked the drive just for curiosity sake and for some reason it worked. It was probably fluke but oddly enough it worked albeit not for long as the drive totally died within a month but I had a replacement for it already as I figured it would not last.