Hi, we have a standalone PC running XP with SP2.
When the machine was booted up on Friday, the following error message was displayed –
3rd Master Hard Disk:S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, Backup and Replace
Press F1 to Resume
The drive is a Maxtor 7Y250M0 250Gb 7200 rpm.
The problem is that the machine was about to be backed up, so the last full backup is out of date.
After trawling through the Internet to no hope, does anyone have any pointers, advice, instructions, to allow the drive to bypass the error message to allow a full backup?
I have tried disabling SMART via the BIOS but get an error message of –
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.
Thanks in advance
