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From: Gerry on 25 Dec 2007 02:57
I think you can turn off SMART in the BIOS. You will most likely need to
re-enable it in the BIOS when you install a new drive.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Celkiar04 wrote:
> I found the Windows XP cd. At this time I don't have a boot disk for
> it. I went into the Recovery Console to look at the bootfile. When
> I tried to look at the boot list (Bootcfg /list) is says there are
> none. When I attempted to rebuild (bootcfg /rebuild) I got an error
> message and then it failed. Help!
>
>
>
> "Grand_Poobah" wrote:
>
>> Have you tried putting the drive into another computer as a secondary
>> drive? You should be able to recover the savable information this
>> way (providing the SMART doesn't stop you).
>>
>> GP
>>
>> --->
>>> I have a computer where it receives an error message upon startup
>>> from the SMART monitoring predicting that the primary master may
>>> have imminent failure and to please back up all data. Then it
>>> states to press F1 to continue or DELETE to enter setup. If you
>>> press F1 it just reloads the same page and error message. Press
>>> DELETE and you go into the BIOS. No where are you given an option
>>> nor will the computer boot normally into windows. Also unable to
>>> boot into Safe Mode. I went into the BIOS to disable the SMART
>>> monitoring in case that was preventing the computer from booting
>>> into Windows. Lo and behold, SMART is already disabled. I enabled
>>> it and then rebooted. Same message, same problem, unable to boot
>>> into Windows. Went into BIOS and disabled SMART, no change upon
>>> reboot.
>>>
>>> The computer seems to be in this error loop with no option to boot
>>> into Windows XP. The user has not backed up any files since March
>>> 2007. We need to access the hard drive in order to do a back up.
>>>
>>> This all happened after the user did Windows updates and then the
>>> computer automatically shut down for a reboot.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to boot the computer into
>>> windows? The Windows XP disks that the computer came with have been
>>> misplaced but are being searched for as I type this. Other than
>>> boot from disk, which may not work if its something with the hard
>>> drive that is preventing Windows from loading, how can I launch
>>> Windows XP?
>>>
>>> Also can I restore to a previous restore point from the BIOS? Or
>>> is there some way to fix the hard drive failure error message we
>>> keep getting?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help?


From: Grand_Poobah on 25 Dec 2007 10:19
I have seen two places to turn it off: 1) in the BIOS, as you say
Gerry, and, 2) using the manufacturer's utility that sometimes comes
with the drive. Western Digital and Maxtor come to mind. Both have
SMART capability.

GP

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> I think you can turn off SMART in the BIOS. You will most likely need to
> re-enable it in the BIOS when you install a new drive.
>
>
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