laptop problem

Former Member

When I turned on my laptop it came up with a message saying "hard drive has detected a imminent problem" or something like that, it also said to press f1 to ignore but I'm worried that my laptop will crash any second and I'll lose everything I have saved. Recently I've been thinking about backing up but I can't really afford anything to do that just yet.
ETA: It's ok my brother has seen the message before on another computer and knows how to fix it.

Former Member

Your hard drive likely has "SMART" enabled. It's a clever system designed to detect faults before they are likely to happen.

Back up your data quickly. I'd never trust a drive after a warning...

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Yup. Afraid to say the SMART stuff is reasonably accurate. Back up what you can and consider a computer repair shop to sort out you with a new drive and copied contents.

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The hard drive reaper is paying you a visit soon my darling!

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Depending on how much stuff you have saved you could either;
Buy yourself a flash card/usb memory stick, usually a couple of Gb for £15.
If you have a DVD writer then some blank DVDs
Or a portable hard drive. I got a mini one with my PC which has all my stuff backed up onto it.

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Gmail Drive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMail_Drive

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Had a google and read that - Look's like a good little extension

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Whowhere wrote: »

Buy yourself a flash card/usb memory stick, usually a couple of Gb for £15.

Tesco are doing a 4GB Sony pen drive for £12.49 :-)