Hi,

I have recently discovered what S.M.A.R.T. was. Anyway, I enabled it in my motherboard settings and downloaded a program to moniter my HD. My HD has been acting rather weird lately, but I shall speak more about that later in this post. Anyway, after I enabled it, I rebooted and downloaded a program called "HDD Health". Its a nice program, I can moniter my HD, and it will tell me how it is doing. Anyway, a short while after (One reboot actually), HDD Health said that my S.M.A.R.T. was disabled. "Huh?" I said to myself. I rebooted checked the bios and it still said enabled, so I checked HDD Health again, and it said S.M.A.R.T. is disabled. So I thought to myself, "Okay, maybe its just this program thats lying to me". So I install a program called "SpeedFan", which has a similar function for monitoring HDs with S.M.A.R.T. and it too says my HD has S.M.A.R.T. disabled. Long story short I am at a complete loss here. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what may be causing this?

BTW, Lately I have been recieving "Corrupt File" errors for really no reason. Particularly, "C:\windows\system32\config\system" I dont know if that is the exact path. But anyway, I couldnt repair the installation, and goback couldnt touch it. So Things of late have been particularly weird. I hope it isnt my HD.

Thanks,
Eric

These are my specs in my sig.

Windows XP Home SP2
P4 2.533Mhz
P4PE Asus Motherboard
1 Gig Corsair pc2700XMS
Western Digital 80gig 7200rpm
Leadtek Geforce 4 4600Ti Ultra 128mb
SB Live 5.1

Your hard drive must be S.M.A.R.T. capable for it to monitor your drive -- many are not.

Thanks for the response. I am pretty sure it is. It was showing SMART readout information for a while, but then it stopped...

Windows XP Home SP2
P4 2.533Mhz
P4PE Asus Motherboard
1 Gig Corsair pc2700XMS
Western Digital 80gig 7200rpm
Leadtek Geforce 4 4600Ti Ultra 128mb
SB Live 5.1

Okay, I confirmed it. It is SMART enabled. its a Western Digital Caviar WD800BB 80GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive.

Windows XP Home SP2
P4 2.533Mhz
P4PE Asus Motherboard
1 Gig Corsair pc2700XMS
Western Digital 80gig 7200rpm
Leadtek Geforce 4 4600Ti Ultra 128mb
SB Live 5.1

IMHO I suggest that you go to the WD website and download there HD checking/testing tool. It requires that you download an exe file and run it to create a boot floppy with the test tools on it. boot with this disc and check the diskout. It should show you any problems encountered. Back up your vital data quckly befoehand!

Good luck and cheers.

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference." Frost

Again, thank you for the reply.

I just finished running WD's util, and it says that my drive failed the SMART test. I did a Quick test, and it immediately, gave me an error stating (Code 0007) Read element failure. After that it said that I should perform a full test, which I did, and it gave me the code 0223, which is errors have been repaired. Just to make sure, I ran a quick test again and got the very same error. Anyway, I quited the utility, and it said, I guess as somewhat of a final grade, that I have Code 0222, "The drive has failed the SMART test. Replace the drive." Which is according to WD's site. I am starting to look in the direction that I might have to buy a new HD.

Thanks

Windows XP Home SP2
P4 2.533Mhz
P4PE Asus Motherboard
1 Gig Corsair pc2700XMS
Western Digital 80gig 7200rpm
Leadtek Geforce 4 4600Ti Ultra 128mb
SB Live 5.1