Lets make this a game.
So here's what happened. Around 1 month ago my computer locked up, no activity from the hard drive, and after a few minutes waiting I just hit the reset button.
After this, the computer then would act as if there was no OS on the drive (Wouldn't boot windows), but the BIOS was still detecting it.
I unhooked the drive, tried a different sata cable and port, but now the BIOS would lock up at "detecting sata devices".
Same thing when I tried it in other computers and with different sata cables.
I found this guide and ordered the necessary cable which finally came yesterday:
http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives...-fix-pics.html
A long procedure but it actually worked. And all my data was still there, which was what I really wanted.
I updated the firmware to hopefully prevent that problem happening again.
Now when viewing the drive with a SMART reader I see this:
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Wikipedia says those two yellow values are signalling imminent hard drive failure.
What do you guys think? Is it going to die?
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