smart hard drives

M

mtslim

hi,

does anyone know how to enable smartdrv
on hard drives with xp as os?

tia
jim
 
G

Guest

many thanks
help is always appreciated

ji

----- Steve C. Ray wrote: ----

XP doesn't have anything to do with it. You enable SMART drive in BIOS
 
Y

Yves Leclerc

I think you have gotten bad advice before! Smartdrv.exe was a disk cache
provided with MS DOS. It is no longer needed (since Windows 95).
 
J

Jim Macklin

S.M.A.R.T. or just SMART is a disk monitoring firmware.


| I think you have gotten bad advice before! Smartdrv.exe
was a disk cache
| provided with MS DOS. It is no longer needed (since
Windows 95).
|
|
| | > XP doesn't have anything to do with it. You enable SMART
drive in BIOS.
| >
| > --
| > Steve C. Ray
| > (Replace "mail" with "36db"
message
| > | > > hi,
| > >
| > > does anyone know how to enable smartdrv
| > > on hard drives with xp as os?
| > >
| > > tia
| > > jim
| >
| >
|
|
 

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