S.M.A.R.T. dont work on Vista

[Adam Szewczak]

Hello.

On my Vista Home Premium i think that smart doesnt work.

HDD Temp take info that there is no SMART drive :/
PC Wizard doest wark at all.

Hmm is there any help, info, update ?

Thanks
Adam

 

[Steve Thackery]

For what it's worth, Google have done a study of literally thousands of hard
disks (in their own servers) and found no correlation between SMART error
reports and actual disk failures.

It's probably not worth worrying about. Just make sure you've got a good
backup regime.

SteveT

 

[The Traveller]

Hello.

On my Vista Home Premium i think that smart doesnt work.

HDD Temp take info that there is no SMART drive :/
PC Wizard doest wark at all.

Hmm is there any help, info, update ?

Thanks
Adam

If you are using an nVidia motherboard and/or chipset, with SATA
drives, then SMART is not supported being that this chipset recognizes
SATA drives as SCSI devices, which do not support SMART.

On nVidia's site, they do propose a work around... for use at your own
risk.

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The Traveller
Oceanside, California

 

[Guest]

That's what I thought too , you just solidified it in my mind.
Thanks, Sid