SMART is a self diagnostic on the hard drive itself. It's purpose is to detect a failing hard drive before it has actually failed and you loose all your data. When SMART displays a message of imminent failure you should back up all your data and replace the hard drive.
There is not a BIOS option to disable SMART.
You can choose to ignore the SMART message, your hard drive may not fail for weeks or months, or it may have failed by the time you read this message.
Martin: Your thread is like mine at this URL: <> As one of the replies you got suggested, I *strongly* suggest you download the Diagnostics utility from the web site of the hard drive manufacturer. Then, run it, several times. Possibly your hard drive will get an "OK", like mine did. Probably with your HD and mine, there is a glitch, but maybe not a major problem. Lanny
I too use the Manufacturers drive test utilities religously. However, if SMART says there is a problem and the diagnostic utility says there is not, who are you going to believe. If tomorrow, next week or next month your hard drive fails and you loose all your data who will you blame.
Roll the dice if you wish. Spending $50 or $100 to replace a suspect drive is a lot cheaper than the cost of lost data. I have been there, four times in the past two years.
I working for Kenya Ports Authority Mombasa and i deal with HP printer PCs Servers and scanners, I have been experiencing Immitent failures on hardrives in Pcs SMART Hard Drive detects imminent failure. From the conversation you said we download diagnostic tool what is the link...to get the the exact tool please when helping pple special the correct link.
