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Hard Drive SMART error...how long do i have?

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i just got the smart error when booting 2 days ago on my WD800BB-22JHCO 80GB ide drive. i have 2 other 120GB drives but no room to save all my music and movies that are on the failing drive. i am going to be getting a 500GB in a few weeks. what is the best thing i can do to prolong my files till i get a new drive? would unplugging it help or wouild that cause it to fail faster?
 
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How many sectors of how many total sectors have been reallocated yet?
Nice tool > http://www.hdsentinel.com/features.php

 
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not sure. i took the hard drive out of my computer and remembered that i have a 120GB hdd in my laptop so i used my little usb hard drive tool:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=35412

and am copying all the files to my laptop. i have had a smart error on my primary drives in the past and just saved all my data and kept using them for weeks or months, but with all my music i was a bit worried. i dont want to have to drag all my cd's out of the closet and rip them again. so hopefully this will work ok. thanks guys. and Peach1971 i will check out that program after i put it back in my pc. thanks
 
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