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Smart failure
Name: MSARYAN Date: June 20, 2004 at 22:46:48 Pacific OS: XP PROFESSIONAL CPU/Ram: 800M 256M
Comment:
I saw this message on my computer 2 weeks ago . i thought that it caused by any operating system file missing . but it continued for a week . i thought that there is a problem and something is wrong . a technician told me that the controller of my hard is damaged and broken down . i heared a new yesterday from one of my friends who is a computer technician that : there is a virus in the internet that makes some trubles on hard disk and causes this message . its antivirus may come soon . mohammad sadeghzadeh from i.r.iran so thakns all you for your answers.
Name: SkipCox Date: June 20, 2004 at 23:39:26 Pacific
Reply:
Mohammad,
S.M.A.R.T. is supposed to let you know of an impending failure of your harddrive.
In a nutshell, Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology is implemented into all of the modern hard disks. A special program inside the disk constantly keeps tracking the condition of a range of the vital parameters: driver, disk heads, surface state, electronics, etc. S.M.A.R.T. technology is able to predict somewhere around 60 to 70% of all hard disk problems and therefore, it's a good idea to immediatly back up all your important data and consider replacing the drive.
Best of luck,
Skip
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Response Number 2
Name: YOYO Date: June 21, 2004 at 04:13:51 Pacific
Reply:
I thought I read somewhere that you don't use S.M.A.R.T. with XP.
YO
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Response Number 3
Name: lefty2053 Date: June 21, 2004 at 06:47:13 Pacific
Reply:
It's up to you if you want to use Smart on your drives, I don't but it is a good idea if you want to know if your HD is failing or not. It doesn't matter if you are using XP or not.
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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser Date: June 21, 2004 at 06:50:11 Pacific
Reply:
"I thought I read somewhere that you don't use S.M.A.R.T. with XP"
S.M.A.R.T. and XP complements each other mostly because the OS kernels doesn't have the time nor resources to constantly track the status of the computer hard disk(s). Look here for additional info
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