How to disable S.M.A.R.T HDD monitoring

Unky_Al

Morning MSE'ers,

For the past 6 months the SMART warning message keeps appearing whenever my PC boots up. I'm not worried about backing the HDD up as there is nothing of importance on it. I have ran numerous scans within windows 7 and now windows 10 (after upgrading) and windows never picks up a fault with the HDD.

I have looking in the bios and can't see the option to switch the monitoring off, any ideas??

Thanks

robatwork

It's normally in BIOS.

You may need to upgrade your BIOS - even then if you don't get the option then just live with it.

Some SMART warnings are impending doom, and some are just about unreadable sectors that won't bring your HDD down. If your data isn't important then you can just live with it.

Nilrem

As robatwork says it'll be in the bios most likely.

What is the machine?
IIRC it's usually under "health monitoring" or as a sub menu on the main bios page (the one with drive detection, time/date etc), but the exact location can vary depending on if it's a big brand PC (Dell etc), or which chipset is in use (it's one of those things most manufacturers tend to stick in roughly the same place for years, but others will put it in a different location).

Unky_Al

Thanks for the replies. The PC in question is a Dell Vostros 400, I'll take another look in the bios later.

Fightsback

You may have pending sector errors, check the drive using Crystaldiskinfo or similar.

http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html

NB Get the portable version without ads.

Pending sector errors:

https://kb.acronis.com/content/9133

Unky_Al

Cheers Fightsback, I'll download that when I get home