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I've started getting this error when my computer boots up. Looking on the web I see it appears to deal with some internal error detecting feature of many new hard drives. All the links I got pointed to linux/unix tools that could be run to look at and examine what the problem was. I have XP SP2 and would like to know if there is some way to enter a command at Start->Run or is there something under Accessories->System Tools that I run and have something come up that explains what specific errors I may be getting so I can possibly fix it?
I have seen this post and the answer there seems to say, just turn off S.M.A.R.T from the BIOS but isn't that ignoring a potentially serious problem? Might I need to eventually buy a new hard drive and copy all my data on to it and reinstall the OS on that new drive?