hello ,

one of my win7 workstations having un issue , what ever hdd i plug in , it just can't show the smart attribs for it !!

i use hdd scan or HD Tune on that machine and others .

i am blaming windows for this as i can see the smart data when booting mhdd .

any ideas ?

Some BIOS allow you to disable SMART, Ive not tested it to see if this could possibly be your issue? but as you say its happening to multiple drives in windows but works ok in MHDD it would be at least worth a look at.

Loki

thank you both

i've tried the bios settings with no luck , i don't even think it's related to the bios , as no changes to the bios were made
i am on win7 32 bit - fully updated "might be some kind bug of micro$oft buggy updated driver ?"


the smart was showing fine until 10-15 days , no new software was installed , and i just hate to reinstall the os on this PC as it may take several days to reconfigure and resetup things .