I bought my HP computer just over a year ago and it has a 120Gb Samsung hard drive. When I switch it on it tells me that it is going to fail and I have to press F2 to continue. XP boots up as normal and I don't get any errors, all programs work fine (other than the message everything is ok). I know I should backup, is it possible to transfer all the data to an external harddrive and the boot from that without having to reinstall anything. Any ideas will help.

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Suspected a virus when I first read your post, but not so sure now....
There's this too....

http://www.bcot1.com/bios1.html

If I were you I wouldn't take the chance with it - backup backup backup and replace it....

Presumably the message is being generated through S.M.A.R.T. (i.e. before Windows loads) so the chance of a virus is quite low.

backup any important data asap.


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got it I will backup asap

thanks everyone