Solve : resetting tripped hdd smart feature?

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Answer» I have an old 27 gig hard drive that I use to test donated systems with. The drive has bad SECTORS on the end that I have remarked so that they do not show, but the smart has been tripped and causes a message on start up that the drive is failing. I have partitioned the drive so that I only use the first 25 gigs, but it seems like there should be some way to reset the smart feature. Any ideas?You can't "remark" bad sectors so they are good sectors again. They will just be marked bad the next time they are accessed...I used a program that REMAPPED the hdd not remarked it. That was my mistake--- When you remap the drive, the bad sectors are not seen. And yes, the hard drive will NOT be useful for anything but for something like testing donated computers that do not come with a hdd. The only reason that I need to reset the smart on this drive is the error message that pops up at boot-up annoys me and wastes time. Again I am sorry that I mislead you in my original post .Quote from: Chuckels on December 17, 2011, 11:21:27 AM I have an old 27 gig hard drive that I use to test donated systems with. Once the SMART warning comes up, the DISK has only a very limited operating time left. Even a working 27 GB hard drive has a cash value somewhere south of that of a Big MAC and fries. How can you "test" a computer meaningfully with a bad HDD? Get a better drive from the next donated machine. Or test them with a CD. Quote from: Chuckels on December 17, 2011, 01:19:53 PM I used a program that REMAPPED the hdd not remarked it. Then you can't change it. Though I've not heard of a program that does the remapping, since it is something that is INVISIBLE to the software side of things.Remapping of a hard drive is easy with the software that is included on your "ultimate boot disk". When the disk boots,go to hdd, then to diagnosis ,the last item on the list is "ViVARD VO.4". It will ALLOW you to do several useful things

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I have an old 27 gig hard drive that I use to test donated systems with.
The drive has bad SECTORS on the end that I have remarked so that they do not show, but the smart has been tripped and causes a message on start up that the drive is failing.
I have partitioned the drive so that I only use the first 25 gigs, but it seems like there should be some way to reset the smart feature.
Any ideas?You can't "remark" bad sectors so they are good sectors again. They will just be marked bad the next time they are accessed...I used a program that REMAPPED the hdd not remarked it. That was my mistake--- When you remap the drive, the bad sectors are not seen.
And yes, the hard drive will NOT be useful for anything but for something like testing donated computers that do not come with a hdd.
The only reason that I need to reset the smart on this drive is the error message that pops up at boot-up annoys me and wastes time.
Again I am sorry that I mislead you in my original post .Quote from: Chuckels on December 17, 2011, 11:21:27 AM

I have an old 27 gig hard drive that I use to test donated systems with.

Once the SMART warning comes up, the DISK has only a very limited operating time left. Even a working 27 GB hard drive has a cash value somewhere south of that of a Big MAC and fries. How can you "test" a computer meaningfully with a bad HDD? Get a better drive from the next donated machine. Or test them with a CD.

Quote from: Chuckels on December 17, 2011, 01:19:53 PM

I used a program that REMAPPED the hdd not remarked it.

Then you can't change it. Though I've not heard of a program that does the remapping, since it is something that is INVISIBLE to the software side of things.Remapping of a hard drive is easy with the software that is included on your "ultimate boot disk". When the disk boots,go to hdd, then to diagnosis ,the last item on the list is "ViVARD VO.4". It will ALLOW you to do several useful things

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