Yeah, I've already know about HD Tune... I'd been alternating between using
it, and HardDriveInspectorPro for a few months. I stopped using HD Tune
because very occasionaly it would crash. HardDriveInspectorPro has only
crashed one time in the many months I've been using it on my 4 machines at
my desk, it was on a machine where all the other programs were screwing up
in different ways, making me decide to reboot the machine
I've emailed the writer of SpeedFan about my desire to silently be putting
some or all of the stats into WMI, with the user not having anything from
the program in the system tray... hopefully he can put that on his "to do"
list...
"Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Chris
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> I endorse JS's recommendation of HD Tune. Excellent freeware programme.
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> JS wrote:
>> Here are two utilities that are worth looking into if you want more
>> info about S.M.A.R.T.
>> SpeedFan: http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
>> The SMART tab displays current smart info on the drive you select and
>> at your option provides an on-line analysis of the drive.
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>> HD Tune:
>> HD Tune, provides drive info and has an option to test your drive.
>> For S.M.A.R.T. status click on the 'Health' tab.
>> http://www.hdtune.com/
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>> JS
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>> "Chris McKean" <cmckean@mckennalong.com> wrote in message
>> news:OMLFaLpQIHA.4584@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> How can this be done? My primary problem to start with is how do I
>>> talk to the BIOS/HDD to get me the S.M.A.R.T. info??? Getting at
>>> least the temperature of the drive would be a start...
>>> thanks
>>> Chris
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