S.M.A.R.T Primary slave 'bad'

[LSMFT]

All of a sudden my primary slave shows as bad in bios boot.
It still works ok though. What is it seeing?

 

[Dave]

All of a sudden my primary slave shows as bad in bios boot.
It still works ok though. What is it seeing?

Get a free S.M.A.R.T utility such as
http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm and you'll see what's
wrong.

 

[Gerard Bok]

All of a sudden my primary slave shows as bad in bios boot.
It still works ok though. What is it seeing?

It is seeing problems.
And so will you do, unless you make a backup a.s.a.p.

 

[Seth]

All of a sudden my primary slave shows as bad in bios boot.
It still works ok though. What is it seeing?

It's warning you of impending doom. That's the point behind S.M.A.R.T.
Without it, you wouldn't know of an issue till it was too late.

 

[Zootal]

All of a sudden my primary slave shows as bad in bios boot.
It still works ok though. What is it seeing?

I had a drive that overheated and triggered the SMART. I don't know why it
overheated, and the drive seems to work fine. I have another drive that had
too many bad spots, and that triggered SMART.

It does't matter why it shows up as bad. Get your data off of it and get
rid of the drive. RMA it if it is in warranty. Throw it in the trash if it
is not. But don't use it - you risk loosing everything that is on it, at
any time, without any more warning then you have already had.