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03-07-2008

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Jerrynl34

"R. C. White" wrote:

Quote:

> Hi, Jerry.
>
> We would have a better chance of helping you if you would share with us the
> make and model of your computer (or motherboard) and your hard drives,
> including the interfaces (IDE, SATA II ?). As you know, there are thousands
> of models of both and what works for one often doesn't help at all with a
> one-digit-different model. :>(
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@xxxxxx
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
>
> "Jerrynl34" <Jerrynl34@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:69FFDA61-24DB-492D-BD04-3D591900B157@xxxxxx

Quote:

> >
> > I have downloaded HDDlife program and am getting an error, "No HDD's with
> > S>M.A.R.T. I contacted the source and was told that the problem as they
> > saw
> > it was that the motherboard had a driver (nVidia chipset) and that I
> > needed
> > to uninstall the IDE part of the drivers and rollback to default Vista
> > drivers which support SMART.
> >
> > Any Ideas?
> > Jerrynl34

> My computer is a Gateway, Model GM 5664, it has 2 500GB hard drives, C drive is NTFS, WDC WD50 00AAKS-OOYGA SCSI Disk, Drivers are Windows system 32\DRIVERS\DISK.SYS and Windows\system 32\drivers\partmgr.sys,the other drive is also 500GB and has the same drivers. Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Jerrynl

03-07-2008	#3 (permalink)
Jerrynl34 n/a posts	Re: Program Problem/Drivers -- Jerrynl34 "R. C. White" wrote: Quote: > Hi, Jerry. > > We would have a better chance of helping you if you would share with us the > make and model of your computer (or motherboard) and your hard drives, > including the interfaces (IDE, SATA II ?). As you know, there are thousands > of models of both and what works for one often doesn't help at all with a > one-digit-different model. :>( > > RC > -- > R. C. White, CPA > San Marcos, TX > rc@xxxxxx > Microsoft Windows MVP > (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1) > > "Jerrynl34" <Jerrynl34@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:69FFDA61-24DB-492D-BD04-3D591900B157@xxxxxx Quote: > > > > I have downloaded HDDlife program and am getting an error, "No HDD's with > > S>M.A.R.T. I contacted the source and was told that the problem as they > > saw > > it was that the motherboard had a driver (nVidia chipset) and that I > > needed > > to uninstall the IDE part of the drivers and rollback to default Vista > > drivers which support SMART. > > > > Any Ideas? > > Jerrynl34 > My computer is a Gateway, Model GM 5664, it has 2 500GB hard drives, C drive is NTFS, WDC WD50 00AAKS-OOYGA SCSI Disk, Drivers are Windows system 32\DRIVERS\DISK.SYS and Windows\system 32\drivers\partmgr.sys,the other drive is also 500GB and has the same drivers. Hope this helps. Thanks, Jerrynl
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