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Hard Disk S.M.A.R.T capability

Feb 16, 2007 3:17AM PST

Hi... I'm Immanuel here...
I'm confused whether i'm supposed to enable the S.M.A.R.T capability for the Hard Disk's i have... I've got a 80GB SATA Hard disk and a 160GB IDE hard disk.. I use Windows XP and a 915 Intel chipset

Please help... I don't want to spoil my hard disk because of a wrong setting.

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Link about and my thought.
Feb 16, 2007 3:22AM PST
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Thanks for the suggestion
Feb 16, 2007 3:28AM PST

Thanks for the sugession... I got a reply in no time....

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I never knew. . .
Feb 16, 2007 10:21PM PST

you could turn it on or off. My tests with Everest just show it ok.