Hard Disk S.M.A.R.T capability - benefits / risks ??

Schroff87 said:

All you had to do was press "Health" in HDtune. You have used the benchmarking function instead.

Nope



I suspect that there is another version that I have not loaded.

theog said:

dustywoodworker said:

There must be functionality that my version of HDTune does not provide. I see no way that this application can help me predict when I am going to have a HDD failure.

Is there more to HDTune than this snip reveals?

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Is the S.M.A.R.T feature available in Windows 7 Home Premium?

Do you have smart enable in BIOS? if yes, click on Health.

I went into the BIOS and enabled SMART. When I rebooted, it failed to start and went into recovery mode.

After the repair action was completed, I am up and running but nothing has changed. Next time I boot, I'll check for the BIOS change BUT I am leaving well enough alone for right now.

Curiosity does kill "the cat and my computer".

This is what I get. Your problem probably runs deeper than simple SMART, try resetting everything by removing the battery if you're upto it.

Check the hard drive with the manufacturer's diagnostic tools.
Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.
HD Diagnostic

pooch said:

Just out of interest HDtune does not show me any smart info for my "C" Drive, however it works for all other drives

It is showing the data for your SSD in the second screenshot though. Probably due to the older version you are running.

pooch said:

there are 2 ssd's :)

PS it is also the newest free version

*scratches head*

How about Speedfan? It can read SMART data too.