SMART Hard Disk Error

[PekoPeko]

Hi all!

I booted up my HP Omen one day and saw that I had a SMART Hard Disk Error (imminent failure // Hard Disk 1 (301) so ran some tests from what I saw online. Checking with CrystalDiskInfo, HD Sentinel, and chkdsk all returned fine results (temperature was good as well). I ran "wmic diskdrive get status" and got a Pred Fail then an Ok. I booted in Safe Mode and ran the same test and got two OKs. Thought it might have something to do with the drivers from what I read on other people's issues (??) so I ran the Driver Verifier checking all non-Windows ones and the laptop wouldn't boot, so I had to go into Safe Mode and disable it to get it working again. Wondering where I could go from this!

My laptop's disk drives are a Samsung MZNTY128HDHP-000H1 and a HGST HTS721010A9E630. Please inform me if I need to provide any more information, would really appreciate the help.

EDIT: I made a backup of all my files already. This is the type of Omen I have. I'm super lost and terrible at troubleshooting, please forgive me.

 

[kaptainkuftic]

Basically SMART scans will monitor things like bad sector allocation (spots on your disk that are physically unread/unwritable and where it put the data that was there) and the like. When something comes up on a SMART scan of a drive, it's a decent indication that you need to back everything up (should be done anyway) because that disk is nearing the end of its life.

You could try using something like HD tune, which I know tells you specific errors it finds and how much you should worry. if nothing comes up on multiple scans, though, you might be looking at a false positive. Either way, take this moment to back everything important up

 

[PekoPeko]

Basically SMART scans will monitor things like bad sector allocation (spots on your disk that are physically unread/unwritable and where it put the data that was there) and the like. When something comes up on a SMART scan of a drive, it's a decent indication that you need to back everything up (should be done anyway) because that disk is nearing the end of its life.

You could try using something like HD tune, which I know tells you specific errors it finds and how much you should worry. if nothing comes up on multiple scans, though, you might be looking at a false positive. Either way, take this moment to back everything important up

Downloaded HD Tune and I got these results so I'm guessing it's definitely not just a false positive and will have to replace my SSD soon? :\ Thanks for the help!

 

[kaptainkuftic]

Didn't realize it was a SSD. I think HD tune was made for specifically disk drives, not solid states. I could be wrong there though.

Either way, I believe average erase count refers to the amount of times you have overwritten or erased data on the drive. So if you frequently fill up the drive and then delete files, that's where that number would come from

 

[kaptainkuftic]

This is what google has found for me: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2527238/explain-average-block-erase-count-means.html