MicroStudios Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Hello pipzim here to ask u pipz about s.m.a.r.t.when i turn the computer on i always see a messagein the hard disk section s.m.a.r.t. capability disableda few question that i wold like to knowwhat does that mean?what does it do?why does windows xp installation need it or elsethe installation is slow.Why is this?how do i enable it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 S.M.A.R.T. - Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting TechnologyBut I never saw that Windows XP installs it self slower when it´s not enabled.You can enable it in your computer BIOS . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalDecay Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 SMART is only useful if you have software installled that supports it (interpretate its output.) For most users SMART is not necessary, you can just disable it if you want. (However it can't be harmful either so if it works better for you, enable it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Actually SMART is useful even without the software if yoursystem BIOS supports it. Many systems will report on drive errors detected by SMART at system boot up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicroStudios Posted March 11, 2005 Author Share Posted March 11, 2005 thanks guys thats all i wanted to know!!But I never saw that Windows XP installs it self slower when it´s not enabled.this is true when you boot with a Windows 98 or ME bootable floppy disk,windows xp installation will ask you to enable it, if it is disabled or else the copying of files will take too much time and when you enable it it completes copying of files in an instance.Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 Are you sure about that? Or is it the other way around?With 95/98(se)/ME and SMARTDISK not activated your installation is slower; it´s not using the free RAM.But for XP I never saw a message asking me to enable S.M.A.R.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buletov Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 smart is about caching disk content in rams.m.a.r.t. is about preventing disk write errors using hardware on the drive itselfthese are two VERY different thing, yet have vary similar name... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob00GT Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 I always enable S.M.A.R.T. in bios. A little over a year ago I started getting the S.M.A.R.T. error message at bootup on one of my hard drives that was part of a RAID 0 array. The error message gave me about a month to back everything up before the drive actually failed.If you ask me, changing that one little BIOS setting is cheap insurance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaer Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 no really7 , enablin SMART is very god, i tried it myself and it saved my soul when i had a worning once. and after i backed up my software i checked it and guess what? a bad sector was found neer boot record and i replaced it by warranty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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