S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive failure test?

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Published on 2010-03-13T20:01:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 20:05 UTC
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I'm working on my mom's computer and she freaked because it told her "There was an imminent hard drive failure about to occurr." I did some digging and found it was related to the S.M.A.R.T. technology in the hard drive.

The message appears every time you boot, but it will still let you boot into Windows and every thing seems fine. How serious are these warning messages? Do we really need to immediately replace the hard drive?

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