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I have a sony vaio laptop and i want to disable S.M.A.R.T. the only problem is it wont let me disable it through BIOS. there is no option. Do i have any other possible solutions? Thanks.

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If the BIOS does not expose a toggle, you generally cannot turn off a drive’s S.M.A.R.T. checks in a lasting way. The feature lives in the disk’s firmware; even if you switch it off from an OS tool, many systems re‑enable it on boot or by a monitoring service. For example, the smartd daemon on Linux automatically turns SMART back on each startup, which is why saw the setting return after a reboot. (man.uex.se)

’s tip to look in Sony’s Windows utilities is spot on: some VAIO models moved bits of “BIOS‑type” control into VAIO Control Center. It cannot disable SMART, but it does show that VAIO hides hardware settings in Windows rather than firmware menus, so it is still worth checking there on older Vaios. (manualzz.com)

If your goal is to stop OS pop‑ups (not the pre‑boot warning), remove or disable any monitoring apps and, on Linux, stop the daemon that re‑enables SMART: sudo systemctl disable --now smartd. That will silence OS‑level alerts while the machine is running, but it will not suppress a BIOS “SMART status bad” gate. In practice, ’s login‑script idea only helps with post‑boot behavior; it cannot bypass the firmware warning at power‑on. (man.uex.se)

Finally, is right: disabling SMART is risky. Large‑scale field data shows several SMART attributes correlate strongly with impending failures, so a warning deserves action, not masking. Make a fresh backup, run the vendor diagnostics (for Toshiba drives, use Toshiba’s Storage Diagnostic Tool if supported; otherwise a vendor‑agnostic tool like SeaTools works), and plan a replacement when you can. (research.google)

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Member Avatar for jbeweb

Please help this is bugging the hell out of me. Its a toshiba hard drive.. I know I have backed up everything but i dont have the money right now to buy a new drive so i need help disabling it. THANKS.

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The only way I know of is to disable it via the BIOS. Have you tried calling Sony? If I remember correctly, Sony computers come with Utility software installed within Windows which has some options that would normally be configurable via the BIOS. If your computer doesn't have that utility software currently installed, try installing the software off of the Applications and Utilities CD that shipped w/ your lappy.

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I'd like to add that disabling SMART is not recommended. SMART monitors your Hard drive for any impending failures and alerts you in advance if it detects anything abnormal with the drive. I strongly recommend you keep SMART enabled.

Member Avatar for DougM1

Get the program here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/

Try this command set "smartctl -- smart=off -- saveauto=on /dev/hdX"

Where "X" is the HDD you want to de-S.M.A.R.T.

hda is the first drive detected, hdb the second, and so on. You can fish for it.

Member Avatar for Tuloide

Using smartmontools is easy to disable SMART, but the change unfortunately it's not permanent. Infact when you reboot the computer, the HDD's firmware make a check and it ri-enables automatically the SMART. So, only with smartmontools, i can't solve my problem :-(

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Tuloide, a simple logon script to disable SMART when you login may solve your problem.

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