smart hard drives

many thanks
help is always appreciated

ji

----- Steve C. Ray wrote: ----

XP doesn't have anything to do with it. You enable SMART drive in BIOS

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"mtslim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in messag
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> hi

>> does anyone know how to enable smartdr

> on hard drives with xp as os

>> ti

> jim

You are welcome.

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"mtslim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> many thanks,
> help is always appreciated,
>
> jim
>
>
> ----- Steve C. Ray wrote: -----
>
> XP doesn't have anything to do with it. You enable SMART drive in

BIOS.

>
> --
> Steve C. Ray
> (Replace "mail" with "36db"
> "mtslim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:199e701c41cd4$1a276390$a501280a@phx.gbl...

> > hi,

> >> does anyone know how to enable smartdrv

> > on hard drives with xp as os?

> >> tia

> > jim

I think you have gotten bad advice before! Smartdrv.exe was a disk cache
provided with MS DOS. It is no longer needed (since Windows 95).


"Steve C. Ray" <stevec@mail.com> wrote in message
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> XP doesn't have anything to do with it. You enable SMART drive in BIOS.
>
> --
> Steve C. Ray
> (Replace "mail" with "36db"
> "mtslim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:199e701c41cd4$1a276390$a501280a@phx.gbl...

> > hi,
> >
> > does anyone know how to enable smartdrv
> > on hard drives with xp as os?
> >
> > tia
> > jim

>
>

S.M.A.R.T. or just SMART is a disk monitoring firmware.


"Yves Leclerc" <yleclercNOSPAM@maysys.com> wrote in message
news:ejRA05bHEHA.2556@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
| I think you have gotten bad advice before! Smartdrv.exe
was a disk cache
| provided with MS DOS. It is no longer needed (since
Windows 95).
|
|
| "Steve C. Ray" <stevec@mail.com> wrote in message
| news:uQr75hQHEHA.3952@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
| > XP doesn't have anything to do with it. You enable SMART
drive in BIOS.
| >
| > --
| > Steve C. Ray
| > (Replace "mail" with "36db"
| > "mtslim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
| > news:199e701c41cd4$1a276390$a501280a@phx.gbl...
| > > hi,
| > >
| > > does anyone know how to enable smartdrv
| > > on hard drives with xp as os?
| > >
| > > tia
| > > jim
| >
| >
|
|