Well i got a HP laptop last month. It was working fine. And today i turned my system on and i got this message saying "SMART hard disk failure predicted back up your data blah blah". I know what is that prediction i am a CS UG myself but what i don't know is that can this prediction be reliable? Could it be a false positive? cus y'know it is a brand new HDD. and HP is a quality vendor. I backed up the files and now i don't get that message (Weird cus if it were a real warning i should be getting it every time i start my system). Should i claim the warranty? Or just carry on? Please answer only if you know this stuff don't waste your time by posting googled up bs. I am defragmenting the disk, making backup discs etc . Let me know if there's anything else i can do to help myself.