Satellite L500 - poor warning of HARD drive

Hi people

I am a complete dummy when it comes to pc!
I had 2 smart messages indicating that my HARD drive is going to fail?
I managed to check the status on my HARD drive in the monitor and it says 'poor' - how rectify this?

Will it be a case of a new HARD drive?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Hello
Looks like the HARD drive would not be 100% ok
But it of difficult to say why I recommend to check the health and status of the HARD drive by using a 3rd party software. You can check the Drive Fitness Test software.
It s freeware and you can download this from some different pages.

If some errors would be detected, I would say: it is time for data backup...
It's always a good idead to have a backup in case something goes wrong with the HARD drive... you know...

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