<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Yes it does state this message with the smart failure, unless I change the bios to not notify.<br><br>Prior to all of this happening I ran disk ultility and the smart data showed the reallocated sector count was<br>pretty high (on red possibly past 100 but I'm not totally sure)<br><br>I think that it might not have been the amount of use but the duration. I had this on sometimes for hours<br>and the temperature often hovered around 120f.<br><br>Could it be possible to buy a portable hard drive and boot off of that? <br></div></body></html>