I've got a question here for everyone. For those of you who don't know, the S.M.A.R.T option is somthing that is enabled or disabled within the system BIOS. What it does is monitor the hard drive to see if there is any kind of problem with the hardware. I'm not sure what all goes into the monitoring, but I've seen it work before.
If there is something wrong withthe hard drive, when you boot the PC, there is a message the comes up and pauses the PC for user intereaction before it continues to boot. This is a critical point at which the operator needs to make the decison whether to boot or get help. Most of the time data can be saved or recovered if caught in time. Some people choose to ignore it and the lose all their data.
At the company at ehich I used to work, employees chose not to bother with the warning and then ***** to Info Sercives when their HD is toast. Reems to be the norm everwhere though. I actuallt encountered about 90% of our PC' not haveing this feature turned on (which I think is a mistake). My manager seems to think that is causes conflicts within the machine. We are running on a domain off of a 2003 server, and 95% PC's are XP Pro and the rest are 2000 Pro. Is there anything to my manager's concern about enableing this feature? I think it could save a lot of head aches in the future. Please let me know if there is anything to his claims of conflicts. Thanks a lot!
If there is something wrong withthe hard drive, when you boot the PC, there is a message the comes up and pauses the PC for user intereaction before it continues to boot. This is a critical point at which the operator needs to make the decison whether to boot or get help. Most of the time data can be saved or recovered if caught in time. Some people choose to ignore it and the lose all their data.
At the company at ehich I used to work, employees chose not to bother with the warning and then ***** to Info Sercives when their HD is toast. Reems to be the norm everwhere though. I actuallt encountered about 90% of our PC' not haveing this feature turned on (which I think is a mistake). My manager seems to think that is causes conflicts within the machine. We are running on a domain off of a 2003 server, and 95% PC's are XP Pro and the rest are 2000 Pro. Is there anything to my manager's concern about enableing this feature? I think it could save a lot of head aches in the future. Please let me know if there is anything to his claims of conflicts. Thanks a lot!