Its a HP Laptop. They pretty much put the BIOS in lockdown.
SMART is enabled in BIOS though, unable to be changed. My guess is its a driver thing with Fedora based distro's. Since Fedora also hates my WIFI why shouldn't it hate my hard drive either? :)
Your probably right about that. I just know that if it is disabled then some times you get errors related to it depending on what your doing.
hi all,
i hope someone can help me out, i am a newbie to all this so bare with me.
my hard drive failed over a month ago but i managed to do a system image with win7 to my new 2tb internal hard drive. i cannot get the image recovery to work as i says "no image can be found on hard disk". i am at...
i have a problem my laptop says it has two hard drives though it only has one physical one my os hard drive is filled and my local disk has lots og free space can someone help me combine them?
One would think that the cause of hard drive heat is mechanical friction, but somewhere, I recently read that the main factor contributing to heat buildup in a hard drive is air friction across the platters. If that is true, I wonder why someone doesn't make a hard drive operating in a vacuum? ...
Hey guys,
I have a HP Touchsmart IQ500. Turning my computer PC on today, all I got was a blue HP invent screen with setup, boot menu, system recovery, and system diagnosis, and I could not get past it.
I entered the BIOS and figured out that the hard drive was listed as "not installed."...