Computer Help and Support

I would not advise just turning it off and ignoring it.

If you don't care if you lose everything stored on that drive then by all means turn off the message but that is an early warning that that drive is beginning to fail. Not something you should ignore if you value your data at all.

To turn it off you would need to go into the Bios and turn off Hard drive monitoring. You would do that by repeatedly pressing the f2 key when you first turn on the computer until it says entering setup. You would need to dig around in there till you find the setting probably something like smart drive monitoring and turn it off.

I would highly recommend making sure you have all the data on that drive backed up though as that warning is not for nothing.

Something you might try is opening windows explorer and finding your hard drive in the listings on the left. Right click the drive and chose properties and then find the tools tab. On the tools tab find error checking and hit check.

It will schedule a disk check for the next time you reboot and try to repair any errors it finds.