Re: SMART: sectors waiting to be remapped, negative numbers and dual boot

2012-01-29 Thread Ian Malone
On 29 January 2012 08:15, Vikram Goyal wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:52:37PM +, Ian Malone wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I had a slightly worrying moment yesterday when the disc manager in >> F16 came up after booting and logging in and warned me that one of my >> drives wasn't healthy. It was ins

Re: SMART: sectors waiting to be remapped, negative numbers and dual boot

2012-01-29 Thread Vikram Goyal
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:52:37PM +, Ian Malone wrote: > Hi, > > I had a slightly worrying moment yesterday when the disc manager in > F16 came up after booting and logging in and warned me that one of my > drives wasn't healthy. It was installed in August so is outside the > traditional earl

Re: SMART: sectors waiting to be remapped, negative numbers and dual boot

2012-01-23 Thread Ian Chapman
On 01/23/2012 08:52 PM, Ian Malone wrote: Both times I've seen this (yesterday and today) are after re-booting from Windows XP, so I'm wondering if there's something about XP SMART management (or lack off?) that's leaving this parameter unset, or possibly SMART is reading a small positive value

SMART: sectors waiting to be remapped, negative numbers and dual boot

2012-01-23 Thread Ian Malone
Hi, I had a slightly worrying moment yesterday when the disc manager in F16 came up after booting and logging in and warned me that one of my drives wasn't healthy. It was installed in August so is outside the traditional early-failure window, which isn't to say it couldn't be on the verge of fail