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Asked: 2021-12-06T00:34:20+00:00 In:

Solved SMART HDD Imminent Failure – Any Way To Backup My Stuff?

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Failure message at startup, this message displays on the screen:

“1720 – SMART Hard Drive detects imminent failure (Failing ATTR: 05)”

Then, a small box below it says to press F1 to Ignore. Only after pressing F1 does the computer come on.
I have local disk(HDD) and a slave hard drive the slave is the one having this problem, how can I back up my stuff. coz it cant open and my pc is very slow , please any one to help

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      It has failed – faults can be intermittent. The solution is to replace it so there’s no point clutching at straws. If you can retrieve the data by cooling it down (or any other means) then fine.

      The trick is to always assume that a hard disk can fail, same as anything else, and back up before it shows signs. It’s odd that if it happened before but the warnings were not heeded. Mostly you are not lucky enough to get that warning.

      A bad hard disk can cause slowness (as can many other things) but if this is an external then it should only affect data transfers to and from it.

      Always pop back and let us know the outcome – thanks

      message edited by Derek

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