Hey all!
My mother in law bought an HP with an AMI Bios, it is still within a year old and the HDD will not boot up without showing the SMART command failure message. I have tried going into the setup and disabling this but there is no toggle available. Her OS is XP any suggestions? This is a business computer and she has all kinds of records on it she needs.
Is there any hope for this HDD?
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Jump to PostS.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. S.M.A.R.T. technology was developed by a number of major hard disk drive manufacturers in a concerted effort to increase the reliability of drives. It is a technology that enables the PC to predict the future failure of hard disk drives. S.M.A.R.T. technology …
Jump to PostUsually when the SMART section bad message appears there is usually a message that says something like "press F1 or F2 to continue", if it dosen't...then the hdd may be beyond help.
Jump to PostUnfortunately there isn't any way that I'm aware of to bypass the SMART section, and if the press F2 to continue dosen't work, it dosen't look good. Just for grins...try opening in safe mode.
When you start the POST, can you hear the hdd spin up? If you can, …
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