s.m.a.r.t command failed

Clarifications

hi
SMART is HDD monitoring software, not really useful although it might be telling you your HDD is borked...or is not compatible with SMART
Setting should be in BIOS somewhere, you dont say what mobo so just enter BIOS and find it try turning it off
if you think the HDD is faulty try a live CD e.g. UBCD -

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

and run HDD tools off that
cheers

SMART is sort of a diagnostic records.

In most BIOS's I've seen, you can tell it to detect SMART enabled HDD's, or turn that off.

But if your HDD is suddenly having problems with SMART, I suspect your drive is ready to die. Normally your BIOS checks SMART on bootup to see if your drive is critical and gives you a warning. Your bios is probably throwing a fit if SMART is broken.

Speedfan can do a SMART test for you, but it doesn't look good for you.

You now need to test it with the Makers Testing Utility to confirm that it really is starting to fail.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/utilities/Support_HUTIL.html

If it fails the Makers Test you need to replace the HDD as it is in the process of failing. The SMART Monitoring is there to prevent Data Loss or at least Minimize it dramatically. ;)

Col

What if you perform the hard drive test and it is the only thing that fails. All the other tests pass, but programs are slow due to a not responding glitch every time you click the mouse