Smart Tools

Posted: 08-13-2006, 02:40 PM
Has anyone tried running SmartTools (open source) on Vista? On XP, the
command "smartctl -a /dev/hda" does a smart disk check. On Vista, I get
"Cannot open device \\.PhysicalDrive0, Error=5 Smartctl open device:
/dev/hda failed: Operation not permitted.

Is this a Vista issue, or something else (I have not tried running XP on
this drive and issuing the same SmartTools command to see if it's just this
drive)
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Lang Murphy
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Re: Smart Tools
Posted: 08-14-2006, 04:02 AM
Have you tried opening a cmd window with "run as administrator"? If not, hit
the Start Orb, All Programs, Accessories and right click on the Command
Prompt menu choice and select "Run as administrator". Type your command in
the command window.

Could also just be that the program in question won't work with Vista.

Lang

"senrabdet" <senrabdet@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Has anyone tried running SmartTools (open source) on Vista? On XP, the
> command "smartctl -a /dev/hda" does a smart disk check. On Vista, I get
> "Cannot open device \\.PhysicalDrive0, Error=5 Smartctl open device:
> /dev/hda failed: Operation not permitted.
>
> Is this a Vista issue, or something else (I have not tried running XP on
> this drive and issuing the same SmartTools command to see if it's just
> this
> drive)
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Bill Laird
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Re: Smart Tools
Posted: 08-19-2006, 05:33 PM

"senrabdet" <senrabdet@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7AFE6E7B-6EA5-4E57-85B9-77A81E33CC59@microsoft.com...
> Has anyone tried running SmartTools (open source) on Vista? On XP, the
> command "smartctl -a /dev/hda" does a smart disk check. On Vista, I get
> "Cannot open device \\.PhysicalDrive0, Error=5 Smartctl open device:
> /dev/hda failed: Operation not permitted.
>
> Is this a Vista issue, or something else (I have not tried running XP on
> this drive and issuing the same SmartTools command to see if it's just
> this
> drive)
Maybe it wants a partition number HDA is just a drive number try hda1 etc...
Could be it won't run on Vista. Security may (sensibly) preventing unknown
programs from accessing the drive.

* Too many years re-loading Windows ... PC's lead me to the conclusion that
most utilities of this type (commercial or open source) just occupy space,
do nothing useful and occasionally cause problems...

What's wrong with inbuilt disk partitioning, formatting, defragmenting etc
etc that you need to 'improve'?

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