Presario R3000

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

Hi all!
I read you suggestion not to update Bios on Presario but it's already to late-i did it yesterday using this one:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/soft ... en&lang=en
It is Presario R3000.

Now i have the following problems:
After restarting it not boot unless i press the Esc button and chose to boot from the HDD.After selecting this option the folowing rows appears on the screen for a second or two:
System Bios shadowed
Video Bios shadowed
Everithing else is marked as:passed
The next screen says:
"SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk O:Toshiba ......
Imediately back up your data and replace your hard drive.A failure may be imminent.Press F1 to continue"
With pressing F1 the Windows (XP) is loading normaly.
Please help me.
Thanks!

[KachiWachi]

You'd have to use a program such as EVEREST to see which SMART parameter is failing...and if it is serious enough to warrant HDD replacement.

You can always turn off SMART detection in the BIOS...and keep good backups...

thanks for helping.
There is only one parameter that fails.It is:
ID 5
Reallocated Sector Count
Threshold 50
Value 1
Worst 1
Data 1022
Pre-Failure:Imminent loss of data is being predicted

I dont know what all this mean.Will be happy if you can help me.
Thanks again

Did you try cloning your harddisk with Symantec ghost and booting with the clone?

No i'm not.I don't have it.Do you think it can be useful?

[KachiWachi]

Sounds like the drive needs to be reformatted, etc... Hopefully that will cure the problem, but it might not if the drive is actually going bad.

I'd copy off/clone your current drive as Sharedoc suggests before it is too late.

Check the Toshiba site...they *might* have a free utility to do this.

Hi!
Thanks everybody for helping.
There is nothing important on it-so i'll take my chance with the reformatt.Will post the result later.Thanks again

No result.I''ll bye a new HDD.That will do.Thanks for halping

[KachiWachi]

When you reformatted, did you tell format to test the currently bad sectors?

I would try a zero-fill and test prior to the reformat using a Toshiba utility as well...if they have such a utility available for download.

The drive may still come up bad, but at least you'll know for sure what is happening. It still *might* be useful for some non-critical application...