"EIDE" warning

That's Dell's version of a "SMART" error. It usually
means that the hard drive's self-monitoring has flagged
that there's a problem on the hard drive, either too many
bad sectors "growing" or temperature out of spec or some
other hardware issue. I usually take this to mean it's
time to buy a new drive, chain it together with the old
one, and run a "cloning" program like Symantec's "Ghost"
to replace the drive.

-----Original Message-----
after downloading some updates from microsoft i got a
warning that stated"dells disk monitoring system-device0
on primary EIDE controller is operating outside of normal
specs" tech support told me i needed a new "C"hard drive
does this sound right system is approx 1 year old
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