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[WindowsMI]

When I started up my computer, it said:

Sec Slave Hard Disk:S.M.A.RT. Status BAD, Backup and Replace. Press F1 to resume.

I have more than one hard drive and would like to know if this would only show up if it is on the hard drive with my OS.

The failing drive is my Seagate drive, and the healthy one is a Western Digital.

What would you recommend doing? I don't know if my Seagate drive has the OS on it.

[iamdarkyoshi]

Can you still BOOT to the OS? If so, open disk management (right click the start button on windows 8/10, search for it in the search bar in windows 7)

 

It should look similar to this:

 

The one that says Boot on it should be your boot drive. Right click the disk all the way on the left and click properties. It'll give you the model of the HDD.

[WindowsMI]

10 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Can you still BOOT to the OS? If so, open disk management (right click the start button on windows 8/10, search for it in the search bar in windows 7)

 

It should look similar to this:

 

The one that says Boot on it should be your boot drive. Right click the disk all the way on the left and click properties. It'll give you the model of the HDD.

Thanks, my OS is on the good HDD. Would the bad HDD be the source of some of my BSODs even if I don't have anything on it?

[iamdarkyoshi]

12 minutes ago, WindowsMI said:

Thanks, my OS is on the good HDD. Would the bad HDD be the source of some of my BSODs even if I don't have anything on it?

It could be, but 99% of my BSODs are either bad ram or videocard issues... I'd try running Memtest86 to test for RAM first, since its an easy test.