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    HD smart error

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Tippey764, Jun 15, 2011.

  1. Tippey764

    Tippey764 Notebook Deity

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    Hey i just bought 2 new hard drives for my hp dv8000

    They are both samsung hm250HJ's and are running in a raid from within windows 7 professional

    Anyways when running HD tune and reading the health tab both hard drives have an error for " Calibration retry count "

    Current: 100
    Worst: 100
    Threshhold: 0
    Data: 2
    Status: warning

    Is this something i should be worried about? These are brand new drives.
     
    Tippey764, Jun 15, 2011
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Try HP's built in diagnostics, though you might have to disable RAID. Sometimes RAID controller will give funky results for diagnostics.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jun 16, 2011
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    This is not a raid controller its buit into windows 7 its 100% software

    Also it was giving me this error on the 1st drive before i installed the second one.
     
    Tippey764, Jun 16, 2011
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    There are more than a few results if you search for "samsung hm250HJ calibration retry"

    Try running the samsung ES-Tool utility diagnostics SAMSUNG Hard Disk Drive

    At this point I would keep an eye out for that value increasing. It could be a sign of a defective drive, or maybe it's just a weird tendency of the drive itself.
     
    ALLurGroceries, Jun 16, 2011
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