Vista and an early warning detection system

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SO i have always had this crusty 100Gb or woteva Maxtor drive. The fact that it still works is something short of a miracle. (3 year old Maxtor Drive).

Anyway... Today Windows Vista in all it's glory showed me a message saying:

Windows has detected your hard drive is in imminent danger of not working.

I had the usual options:

  • Back up all my data
  • Remind me later of this problem
  • Never remind me again (Not recommended)

Obviously not the exact wording but you get the idea. Anyway if you click the tab for more details it tells you which volume windows has detected is farking up.

Nothing serious on the Maxtor drive. If it died i would only lose games that have been installed on it.

So i did a scan disk (more out of interests sake) and windows says the drive is fine.

Anyway... thought it was a cool feature (the drive might be dying alert) but thought it strange that nothing was picked up with a scan disk.

:confused:
 
does vista have chkdsk? or is it incorporated into scan disk?
 
Is it not because your drive exceeded some threshhold in SMART perhaps?
 
rorz0r said:
Is it not because your drive exceeded some threshhold in SMART perhaps?
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could be, last i checked SMART is a bios thing and not an OS thing... but with Vista anything is possible.

I must admit i have heard some pretty funky noises coming from one of the drives in my pc.

always fun to find out the hard way which hard drive crashed.

perhaps a cautionary back up of er... important files wouldn't hurt.
 
yeah, think it might have been some sort of SMART alert, doesnt mean any files are dammaged or anything, but the drive might just crash... or something like that.
 
smart is a bios and HDD think

but it does nothing on its own, once its enabled you need an actual software program to go query the smart data, available for xp and 2000 and 98 systems, just nobody ever tells you that you actually need to install a tool to show the data
 
Vista regularly checks the SMART status. In the past, you could have utilities (or even a wmi vb script...good idea for 2k/2k3) to check the status while windows was running.

Yes, it is a bios option, the actual SMART runs on the HDD (part of it's core logic)

This was included into Vista intentionally from what I've been told/trained.
 
Ever since I installed Vista I have had the same message. What is odd in my case I often hear one of my drives spinning up as if it has been off even when the PC has been on for ages :s
 
James said:
Ever since I installed Vista I have had the same message. What is odd in my case I often hear one of my drives spinning up as if it has been off even when the PC has been on for ages :s
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I get the same thing as well, minus the message that my hard drive is going to crash.
 
seems that vista uses power saving on hard drives
go to power saving and switch off power saving on the hard drivers
took my noise away
 
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