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‎02-12-2017 06:34 AM - edited ‎02-12-2017 05:57 PM

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Product: Pavilion 11n-010dx
Operating System: Linux

I keep getting an error upon startup:  

SMART Hard Disk Error

The SMART hard disk check has detected an imminent failure. To ensure data loss, please backup the content immediately and run the Hard Disk Test is System Diagnostics.
Hard Disk 1 (301)

When I run the test (both Quick and Extensive) I get a similar error:  
SMART Check: Not available
Short DST: Not available   (When I run the long test, it says Long DST: Not available)

This is a brand new hard drive. I booted from live usb in Ubuntu to text the hard drive and found no bad blocks  by using the badblocks command.  Though from Gparted it did tell me that the block size is 2048 and linux thinks it is 512

 

I replaced the drive because I got what I thought were real Hard Drive warnings from the SMART check upon startup.  The badblocks command found thousands of bad blocks on that drive, so I replaced it.  Since the warranty was up, I bought a new hard drive and switched to Ubuntu Linux (from Windows 8.1)

 

Now I get the warnings as described at the beginnnig of this post.  I reseated the hard drive and that didn't work.  I have legacy mode enabled in the BIOS to work with this OS.  Could that have anything to do with it?

 

There wasn't a way to turn off the SMART check (that I could find) from the BIOS. I haven't switched to UEFI mode only (by disabling the Legacy mode) becaused the BIOS gives warnings of possibley not being able to boot (which I thought was worse).

 

I am not sure what the next step would be to repair.  Any help would be much appreciated.

 

 

Edit.  I switched the setting to disable the Legacy mode and it did not help.  It seemed to not boot consistently so I re-enabled the Legacy mode.  

 

I read somewhere that perhaps a BIOS update would get rid of the false positive, though I am not sure why a false positive would all of a sudden become an issue.  Since I don't have Windows, I was wondering if a version of FreeDos would support the running of the new BIOS version .exe file.  Does anyone have any experience with this?  Is this a prudent direction to go?

 

 

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