Hard Drive detects imminent failure

Please can anyone help. i have a compaq 6735s lap top which is about months ols. Today when i switch on I have a black screen with the following message: 1720-SMART hard drive detects imminent failure.
What should i do now

Hi,
How many months?
The error message might or might not be true. It is worth your time to go ahead and back up all of your data to an external hard disk
Boot into Windows and go to Device manager look at the disk drive device click on the + to expand the category and post the model number (the complete alphanumeric string next to the icon) here in your thread. There is a possibility that your hard drive requires a firmware update. I will do a bit of research to see if that is indeed the issue.
There are some Maxtor drives that have had to have the update done to correct the SMART reporting feature which caused an error message virtually identical to the one you are getting.
regards,
erico.
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