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Old December 8th 07, 09:43 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Rod Speed
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Default BIOs Warns Hard Drive Failing, but Drive Passes Test

Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:58:48 -0600, jim evans
put finger to keyboard and composed:

[ Maxtor 5T030H3 (T3R3A14C) ]


03 Spin Up Time 63 193 192 23900
OK: Value is normal


0A Spin Retry Count 223 222 221 30
Pre-Failu Imminent loss of data is being predicted


It looks to me like your drive may have had a stiction problem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stictio...er_maintenance


Unlikely, that drive doesnt suffer from that.