I am getting message at boot time 3rd slave hard disk smart status bad backup and replace But, how to know which one is 3rd slave? Thanks
go into the bios and see in what order their setup in....or u can open your comp and unplug the power cable from HD one at the time...start with the last one at the bottom.
Boot up into your bios and check to see if this drive's sata cable is plugged into the sata port 3 on your motherboard. If it is, switch it to port 0 (or 1) Check your smart status, if it errors again you'll need a new drive....which could be upgraded to a SSD. Back up your data asap because you can't tell if this drive could drop dead in minutes or days/weeks/months I think it shows "3rd Slave" because you might be on sata port 3
yep Joe C you are correct in my opinion, so time to buy new hdd and maybe him put cable into wrong port too
how he posted it....it sound like he had more than one HD install. u guys mite be correct hes HD could be toast. hes info is very limited.
Thanks all of you for replying. I backed up all of the data securely. I had only one hdd. I didn't notice in which port, the HDD was plugged in. So, I didn't try to change the port and bought a new Samsung 850 EVO. I guess I haved plugged that SSD in 4th port. Is it okay to plug it in 4th port? I will also re test the old HDD on different computer using different port.
Or should make hybrid SSD+HDD of the. HDD is good condition? Is it safe for my new SSD to make a hybrid with HDD?
Hi I don't see none issues myself make use of both devices in this manner: with SSD I put ONLY Windows O.S. and on HDD I have severals folders including of course Documents, Downloads, Musics, Pictures, Videos (previously moved from users folder where I simply right click with mouse and move one by one of five folders to HDD) so if something crash O.S. I simply put pendrive with system and reinstall Windows again without lost any file ok