A Hard Drive has reported that it might fail

17. Apr, 2010 0 Comments

If your computer prompts you saying that “A hard drive has reported that it might fail” this means that your computers hard drive is faulty and is about to break in the near future, if you ever see this message the first thing to do is to backup all the important files and software you have and then to go purchase another hard drive to replace it, if the hard drive that is broken is your main one or the one that runs your Operating System you may need to purchase an Operating System CD or use a restore disk that came with your computer.

You may need to take the machine to have a professional computer technician to replace the hard drive and reinstall everything for you, but in the long run by fixing this problem now you are going to save data loss of your important files and software.

Is this a fake message?

Sometimes viruses pretend to be legitimate software to try and trick you into giving them your Credit Card details, before taking any action such as paying or getting your hard drive replaced I would recommend that you scan your system with Malwarebytes – It’s one of the very best anti virus out there and will find out if it’s a fake message trying to defraud you.

Malwarebytes is free, but there is a premium version that will find A LOT more viruses and keep your system protected, the license lasts for a lifetime and is cheap enough because you never have to renew it. Click here to visit Malwarebytes.

Once Malwarebytes is installed, if you have the full version run “Flash Scan” if not you will have to do a normal scan – Make sure that it’s updated to the latest version and then start the scan, once it’s finished you will be told if there are any viruses.