Just looking for input regarding a hard drive on my HP 17-ar050wm; it has me exhausted. HP has a thing called Smart Drive technology, probably proprietary, that is supposed to warn in advance if hard drive is predicted to fail. This thing froze up twice yesterday, and had to be hard restarted (held pwr button down for x seconds). At restart, I get an error 301, that says hard drive failure is imminent. I had to update UEFI, and I also ensured BIOS set to original defaults. Ran CHKDSK /r last night, which took a few hours, after first checking the disk using file manager via disk properties and getting the no error message. In the event log under Windows logs/Application log/wininit the log says Windows has made corrections to the file system. No further action is required.
I'm defragging the C drive now, even though it is only 2 percent fragmented. A tech video I was watching showed how the tech removed the drive giving the 301 error from the HP laptop, and put it in a different laptop, and no problems were found. He said if the disk speed falls too low, Smart Drive technology flags it as imminent failure predicted. Other possible false positives, per web search, could be caused by excessive heat, loose connection, or problems from hard impact to the laptop, but I'm pretty sure those are ruled out for me.
So, I guess I'm just looking to find out if anyone else has had this experience i.e.: This seems to be a common issue with HP but this Smart Drive tech is also HP specific. Have you seen instances of this? Even though a new 1TB drive is not all that expensive, with my budget being so tight, buying something I may not need "just in case" is something I avoid (especially so if there's nothing wrong with it).
Regardless, I suddenly see the wisdom of making that recovery disk and backing up files. Related question: Since a recovery disk can only be made once, is there anything stopping me from putting recovery on USB drive and later copying to four DVDs?
Pardon the verbosity, and thanks for any tips you could share. I gotta take a break; this thing's giving me a headache.
Edit: Forgot to mention that I found a system event number 52 in system error logs. The details refer to imminent failure and SmartDisk, but googling the same event number shows that Microsoft considers ID 52 a time sync error. Sigh
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