SMART short test failed

Under hardware Maintence diagnosed and he tells me that the SMART short Test failed what it means and how to fix this

I think that trying to DEFRAGMENT a hard disk 'default' is the wrong thing to do.

Compare to the conduct of a dirt road with Bald tires - while the Bald tires may be OK on a dry, paved, road between them work "hard" will result in a failure of the tire.

Similarly, many files on the hard drive when it is expected to be soon to fail, is also a bad idea.

Any small computer boss store can sell you a hard drive brand new and may try to "clone" of 100% of the hard drive of the 'old' drive on 'new' disk

Price?  It depends on the capacity (250 GB? 500 GB? 1000GO? 2000 GB?).

About US $100, you will have a new disk drive with a capacity greater than your current drive.

Add $50 to $100 US for the technician:

Open the computer case,

* Check the physical size and the capacity of the old-disk drive, to recommend a "compatible" replacement

* Fix temporarily the new discs,

* run the software "-disk cloning."

* delete the old records (and he will give it to you, so that you can literally hammer it, so that no one will ever be able to read one of your folders – think 'security'),

* connect permanently the new disks.

* close the computer case,

* test it.

It also depends on the "age" of your computer.

If it is still running Windows XP or Windows Vista, it will be over ten years - REPLACE a computer of this type.

rather than spend more than US $150 to keep until something else died of "old age".

Tags: HP Desktops

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