I received the following error on my HP Pavilion laptop: SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 4: WDC WD2500BEVS-60UST0-(S1) Warning: Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent. Press F1 to continue. When I press F1 the computer does not respond. How can I solve this issue?

You will have to replace the HDD

This error is usually caused by excessive sector remapping, meaning that either your hard drive's heads are failing or the coating on the platters is. You need to clone the drive as soon as possible. If your data is critical (can't afford to lose it) we can do it for you using professional data recovery tools for $350. http://www.data-medics.com

just means its time to backup all your information, as if the hard drive does fail theres a good chance you may lose some or all of your information.
hard drives aint that expensive around 30 pounds +
and you can replace it with any sata hard drive.

This error message is warning that the hard disk could fail soon. It pays to back up your data frequently so when the hard disk fails you will not lose youe data.
The only way to fix this problem is to install a new hard disk, install Windows on the new hard disk and the Acer laptop's device drivers plus your programs and data.

It's telling you the hard drive is going belly up. Recover as much data from it as fast as you can.

Have you ever heard of TDL4 malware? It actually writes a new partition with oddball parameters such that most antivirus and anti-malware products cannot find the infection. But often the new partition overlaps previous partitions, making the internal "not-so-SMART" routines suspect that the hard drive is failing. It usually is not true! But there are only a scant few utilities that even detect TDL4, or any of it's variations. Good Luck!

Definitely a hard drive problem, you'll need to replace the drive and reinstall all the software.

Hello there,

As per experience, SMART Utility will check your HDD for any errors that may occur.

I backed up everything and replaced a new HDD and got rid of the error.

Opened up the problematic HDD and noticed a very light scratch on its "platters".

As for me. Never ignore this warning before something might happen to your HDD and lost important data.

welcome to fixya

you will need to contact the maker of the computer unless they tell you to take back to best buy ...

i hope this helps you out have a good day

SMART stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology.

If you want lots of details on what it is, and does, take a look at this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitoring,_Analysis,_and_Reporting_Technology

It is highly unlikely that you will be able to fix this since it's a hardware problem on the hard drive. The drive may last for years or it may die tomorrow. At a minimum I would back up everything you care about on a regular basis.

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