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To: Alex Molnar who wrote (88954)	6/1/2015 8:27:23 AM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

Post a screenshot if you can. The ChrystalDiskInfo report for this computer is below. The OS drive is shown and has C/D partitions for Win7 and XP. All the blue circles are separate drives. This computer has six. The color-coding is blue for good, yellow for caution, and red for bad. S.M.A.R.T. errors don't go away, even with formatting. I do have some yellow drives, but don't run them, but will use them for emergency backups and put them on a shelf. Also when I say emergency backup, that means it's a 3rd or 4th drive with the same data. The health status for drives can also turn yellow if they're running hot, but status will change back to blue after they cool off if that was the only problem. Hot drives can be caused by several things or a combination of them. Room temperature, inadequate cooling for the case, and copying large directories from one drive to another for an extended period can cause overheating. Also writing a large amount of data to a drive will generate more heat than reading a large amount of data. Wikipedia Link -- S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology; often written as SMART) en.wikipedia.org. * * *