Dr. Blip's PC-Doctor Forum
General Category => Ask Our Experts => Topic started by: jmp242 on April 06, 2010, 05:25:05 am
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I've got a disk with a SMART Status OK but Failed SMART Short and Extended test ... It's a seagate SATA disk. The other tests (like funnel seek test etc) are OK from Service Center 7.5 WinPE boot environment.
Is this disk bad?
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jmp242,
The SMART status check is basically a "Do you support SMART and is it enabled" test. The SMART short and extended tests are drive self tests invoked by PC-Doctor.
If any of the SMART tests are failing, I would backup the data and replace the drive. Even though data may be reliably read and written by the normal PC-Doctor tests does not mean the system is not doing retries or having issues. Failing SMART tests is the drive itself telling you it is having problems.
-Fred