Originally posted by Bads@Jan 11 2003, 03:20 PM
Hello,
4 days ago, when I boot my PC, I receive a BIG "warning" about a hard drive that will failed very soon 
Is that a HDD with SMART enabled??? I had a Western Digital and had SMART enabled; it signaled an imminent HDD crash...When I tried to image it, PQDI error'd out...I then ran scandisk, scandisk "fixed" the damaged sectors...I was able to recover all my data files...And the drive still works, but it's no longer in my PC...
What I am trying to say is, try PQDI; if it errors out, then run Scandisk (or even VMarkBad), and try to get it stable one last time...