disk SMART / predicted failure

[K]

I am getting the following message in the event log:

Source: disk
Type: Warning
Category: None
Event ID: 52
The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 has
predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and
replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.

as well as Event ID 51 (An error was detected on device %s during a
paging operation).


Apparently the driver or something in Windows is performing SMART
queries to the drive, or getting an exception sent to it (from the
drive?). Is it possible to configure this behavior at all? Ages ago
I saw SMART commands sent to a drive but was unable to determine the
source (this was keeping the disk spinning when we did not want that
to occur). Is there any documentation on any of this?

Thanks.

 

[Henry Markov]

Usually SMART can be disabled via BIOS. You may want to check if the disk
is in warranty because this should be grounds for an exchange.