[j123jam]

Hi Folks. I have a Sony Vaio laptop that's less than a year and a half old. I replaced the HDD once when it died (Fujitsu brand), but now I'm afraid I might be having more problems. I primarily use Windows Vista (please spare me the jokes), but I was able to boot into Ubuntu LiveCD to run SMART tests. I am posting the SMART results for the short test below and I'm hoping somebody can help me interpret them because I have no idea what they mean. I ran the long SMART test too, but it gave the same results. I really appreciate any help! I really hope there's a way to recover my data and save the drive.

Some symptoms: Cannot boot into Vista, says registry corrupted. Cannot boot into windows recovery partition to run the startup repair (it starts booting but hangs with black screen and white pointer which I can move around). I can't even boot from Vaio Restore CD (it also hangs at black screen, HDD activity light solid).

Here's the SMART results:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright © 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: FUJITSU MHX2250BT
Serial Number: K204T7826E6Y
Firmware Version: 0041000B
User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Not recognized. Minor revision code: 0x52
Local Time is: Wed Mar 4 17:17:22 2009 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 121) The previous self-test completed having
the read element of the test failed.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (1382) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 159) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 046 Pre-fail Always - 36175
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 030 Pre-fail Offline - 74514432
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 100 100 025 Pre-fail Always - 1
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1322
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 024 Pre-fail Always - 8439613030467
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 047 Pre-fail Always - 3495
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 019 Pre-fail Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 2934
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 020 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 644
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 7
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 31672
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 34 (Lifetime Min/Max 16/49)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 15
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 410714179
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 6
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 097 097 000 Old_age Offline - 6
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 549847
203 Run_Out_Cancel 0x0002 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2628548428173
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 410 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.

Error 410 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2934 hours (122 days + 6 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 03 24 08 00 40

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
60 08 00 20 08 00 40 00 00:13:30.027 READ FPDMA QUEUED
27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00:13:30.026 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00:13:30.026 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 45 00 00 00 a0 00 00:13:30.026 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00:13:30.025 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT

Error 409 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2934 hours (122 days + 6 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 03 24 08 00 40

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
60 08 00 20 08 00 40 00 00:13:24.397 READ FPDMA QUEUED
27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00:13:24.397 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00:13:24.397 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 45 00 00 00 a0 00 00:13:24.396 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00:13:24.396 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT

Error 408 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2934 hours (122 days + 6 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 03 24 08 00 40

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
60 08 00 20 08 00 40 00 00:13:18.768 READ FPDMA QUEUED
27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00:13:18.768 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00:13:18.768 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 45 00 00 00 a0 00 00:13:18.767 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00:13:18.767 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT

Error 407 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2934 hours (122 days + 6 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 03 24 08 00 40

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
60 08 00 20 08 00 40 00 00:13:13.139 READ FPDMA QUEUED
27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00:13:13.139 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00:13:13.138 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 45 00 00 00 a0 00 00:13:13.138 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00:13:13.138 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT

Error 406 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2934 hours (122 days + 6 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 41 03 24 08 00 40

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
60 08 00 20 08 00 40 00 00:13:07.510 READ FPDMA QUEUED
27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00:13:07.510 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00:13:07.509 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 45 00 00 00 a0 00 00:13:07.509 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00:13:07.509 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 2934 2084
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3 -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.