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Hard discs and SMART

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by r.leale, 2004/04/19.

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    r.leale Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Up to now Speedfan has been reporting on the SMART status of my two HD's whenever I needed it to, but suddenly it has stopped finding my HD's, so no reporting!
    I have a Maxtor 40GB master and a Western Digital 80GB slave, both of which were visible in Speed fan before.
    There is no mention of Smart in the BIOS, the mobo is an Asus A7N8X-X.
    Has anybody had this problem and solved it?
     
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    Hi r.leale,

    I haven't tried Speedfan. Do you have Aida32? It has a SMART readout. It reads mine even though I don't have SMART enabled. (My connection is having trouble. I can't get a link for Aida32. PeteC's signature has a link if you need it.)

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    Try Aida32 - link in my sig and see what that has to say re SMART.
    Should report all SMART details.

    Matt beat me to the post :)
     
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    Gotta be quick Pete :D

    Matt
     
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    Something strange is going on here! I tried Aida32 as well and that can't find my hard discs either! SFC /scannow found no problem, and all else is working well, so I shall probably put it down to one of XP's strange whims and live without Smart.
     
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    I can't offer you an immediate solution, but I feel that it is nothing to do with XP - SMART - AFAIK, operates at BIOS level, i.e. under the OS. You are correct that SMART appears to be enabled by default in the BIOS of your Asus A7N8X-X and there is no option to change - same on my Asus A7N8X-E DeLuxe. the option was there on previous mobos - guess this is called progress :D

    Might be worth flashing the BIOS if you feel that way inclined - or leave well alone :)
     
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    Hi Pete,

    The problem is not solved but the source of the problem has been found. I installed another HD with XP on it and the Smart data was immediately available both to Aida32 and ActiveSmart, so the problem was not coming from the mobo, but rather something to do with XP.
    Going back to my main HD, I decided to try to use my True Image set up to re-establish XP to an earlier state so disabled GoBack. Lo and behold, all the smart data became available.
    Enable GoBack again and the HD's are hidden from smart. I shall be taking up the matter with Roxio.
    Another annoying thing about GoBack is it's persistance! Before using True Image I de-installed GoBack, or so I thought, using the Control Panel > Add Remove Programs method, machine rebooted, and a message appears 'GoBack is disabled - would you like to enable it?'
    Obviously the deinstallation process only disables it and clears the history files.
    Incidentally, Active Smart is a useful little program (if you have $25 to spare!) it can be set to monitor the HD's at boot and report from the system tray, and also pops up a warning if an attribute changes.
     
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    Glad to hear you have made progress on this.

    Interesting comments on GoBack - I used it for a while, but found it to be intrusive in logging every file change - the hard drive(s) hardly stopped reading. On thing that annoyed me about it was the inability to set it up to monitor a single partition on a drive - I have many partititions on 2 x 80 Gb drives with drive letters stretching down to P.

    Some time since I uninstalled it, but have since reformatted the drive and rebuilt the computer anway, but I don't recall any specific problems.
     
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