Getting S.M.A.R.T. HARD DRIVE info into XP's WMI

Chris McKean · Guest

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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Chris McKean wrote:

JS · Guest

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.

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/

JS

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Gerry · Guest

Chris

I endorse JS's recommendation of HD Tune. Excellent freeware programme.

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Hope this helps.

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JS wrote:

Chris McKean · Guest

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 Sad

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...

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Philip Andrews · Guest

Hello Chris,

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Chris McKean · Guest

One of my machines is:

Dell Optiplex GX620
F2 goes to setup
Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A11

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