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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: spectatorx on November 03, 2017, 02:41:02 am
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My hdd is probably failing (windows installation from usb stick takes over 1h and had some OS issues related to missing BCD prior to reinstall) and i wanted to read smart data on it but unfortunately i'm unable to. At first i thought maybe some changes been done to my fav program for this (gnome-disk-utility) but i took a look into uefi and i see no option to disable or enable smart. Way back in better times when bios was a thing there was a key shortcut to show hidden options: ctrl+f1, i've tried it now on uefi but nothing happened. Any way to check if smart is enabled and if it is disabled how to enable it?
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Greetings,
There are 4 revs of this board. Also don't know which BIOS rev you are running. In general, if you want to fully understand and confirm a disks health, use the manufacturers diagnostic utility which will give you insight into SMART parameters.
Going back in time... many BIOS had SMART monitoring built in. I haven't seen a BIOS with anything more than general "predictive failure" warnings displayed during POST for quite some time. By the time this happens, a disk will already be well on its way to failure.
In your case, protecting your data should be your primary focus. By whatever means is necessary. Slaving the disk in another machine, using a "toaster" etc. Then you can decide how much time you want to spend determining disk health.
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I never saw this option in this board's bios (rev 3/4)
However, you can use CrystalDiskInfo (free) to check s.m.a.r.t
and as above - backup sensitive data to an usb-drive (external) or if networked to another pc box. Keep at least 2 backup generations and never overwrite the only existing backup.