chavo Posted August 13, 2005 Share Posted August 13, 2005 I've discovered a new feature in Vista, the hard way. I haven't seen it discussed here or elsewhere so I'm not sure if anyone knows about it. Vista will popup a screeen warning you of imminent hard drive failure if your disk fails a SMART test. I have rebooted into XP and confirmed this by using a third party SMART monitoring tool. It also reports a CRITICAL DRIVE CONDITION! It's a nice new feature to add to an OS, but a crappy way to discover it. Well it's an old 30G disk with a lot of bad sectors and needs to be replaced anyway. I just got done reinstalling and retweaking XP on it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grope for Luna Posted August 13, 2005 Share Posted August 13, 2005 I accidently found an interface for it but I'm damned if I can remember where. :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore Max Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 I've discovered a new feature in Vista, the hard way. I haven't seen it discussed here or elsewhere so I'm not sure if anyone knows about it.Vista will popup a screeen warning you of imminent hard drive failure if your disk fails a SMART test. I have rebooted into XP and confirmed this by using a third party SMART monitoring tool. It also reports a CRITICAL DRIVE CONDITION! It's a nice new feature to add to an OS, but a crappy way to discover it. Well it's an old 30G disk with a lot of bad sectors and needs to be replaced anyway. I just got done reinstalling and retweaking XP on it though. 586370122[/snapback] In a way, you're lucky. But then, you're not. Time for you to get a new HDD ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felinix_Devotion Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Nag ya missus for a nice 400gb one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bwizzel-B Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 I've discovered a new feature in Vista, the hard way. I haven't seen it discussed here or elsewhere so I'm not sure if anyone knows about it.Vista will popup a screeen warning you of imminent hard drive failure if your disk fails a SMART test. I have rebooted into XP and confirmed this by using a third party SMART monitoring tool. It also reports a CRITICAL DRIVE CONDITION! It's a nice new feature to add to an OS, but a crappy way to discover it. Well it's an old 30G disk with a lot of bad sectors and needs to be replaced anyway. I just got done reinstalling and retweaking XP on it though. 586370122[/snapback] How exactly was it a "crappy way to discover it"? The feature did it's job. It's not like you discovered that you had an airbag by getting into an accident with your car. Now *that* would be a crappy occasion :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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