SMART Status [HELP]

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ATITek

Limp Gawd
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What would cause the SMART status not to report on a WD Caviar drive? I get SMART Status: NOT AVAILABLE in Data Lifeguard for Windows. I checked my BIOS setting and SMART monitoring is enabled.

I can get the SMART status on all external drives connected via USB, but not my internal SATA drives.

Thanks in advance.
 
If you're on Windows XP and haven't updated in a while, you may need to install drivers for SMART to work. I can also highly suggest installing speedfan and try to run SMART from there.

That said, a drive could pass the test just fine and still fail the next week, so it's not necessarily something to rely on (though if it says something bad you should take it as a cue to start backing up)

http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php
 
I got nothing from the SMART tab in SpeedFan. It did not show my drives.

I am running a clean install of Vista Ultimate x64 w/ SP1. I just installed it and have not loaded any updates.
 
Is it a Dell or some prebuilt system by any chance? I cant see the SMART on my two Dell or Acer machines through most monitoring tools either. Everest Ultimate works for me though.
 
It is a Velocity Micro. Here are the specs.

Asus P5ND nForce 750i SLI, Socket 775, PCIE,DDR2
CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W - Power Supply [BRAND NEW]
Intel Core 2 Quad processor Q9450, quad 2.66GHz cores, 12MB L2 Cache
DDR2 Memory 4096MB Corsair XMS2 DDR2800
2 x 512MB EVGA GeForce 8800GT DDR3 in SLI, PCIE,Dual DVI/HDCP
Integrated High Definition 7.1 Channel Sound
750GB Hitachi 7200rpm 16MB Cache SATA 300 w/NCQ [BRAND NEW]
Windows Vista Ulimate 64-bit
DVD-RW Drive w/ LightScribe
Media Card Reader
 
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