SMART Hard Drive Detects Imminent Failure, Failing Drive: SATA5, Failing Attribute: # 05

[CountryGentlema]

HELP! My system suddenly quit working. The following message has been shown on the screen:

Processor Type: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU@3.20GHz

L1/L2/L3 Cache Size: 32KBx6 / 256KBx6 / 12288KB

Memory Size: 16384 MB DDR3 / 1600 MHz / Quad Channel

Channel A: XMM1 4095 MB

Channel B: XMM2 4096 MB

Channel C: XMM3 4096 MB

Channel 😧 XMM4 4096 MB

BIOS Revision/Date: v7.10 02/23/2012

1730-SMART Hard Drive detects imminent failure.

Failing Drive: SATA5

Failing Attribute: # 05.

Is there some way that I can get this fixed without reinstalling Windows? Please help and understand I don't talk computer talk. Thank You!

[GPU-2]

HI.

I am afraid that the only solution would be to replace the hard drive, SMART errors are imminent failures. It is always convenient to make backup copies with some other device and more if sterno personal data

Regards.

[CountryGentlema]

Another crazy question. I have several harddrives in my PC. Are ALL of them shot? I had saved a few thousand songs and quite a few thousand pictures on several different harddrives. Are they all lost?

[GPU-2 · Accepted solution]

No, you will only have the wrong hard disk, the one with the operating system installed, is the one that gave you the error, the others are secondary, those hard disks are still good and you can recover the data.

[CountryGentlema]

Thank You Jesus!!! Oh, and thank YOU too!

[GPU-2]

You're welcome.

[CountryGentlema]

Now if I can just get it fixed...