Disabling SMART monitoring in windows 7

[alyarb]

I have a 500 gig seagate that I want to use, but dont care about in the least. It has been running fine for about a year with these SMART "drive bad/backup/replace" warnings, and every startup, every few minutes or so windows keeps reminding me about this shit. I have SMART disabled in the BIOS and keep getting these warnings and there is no clear means of disabling or permanently ignoring them. what do you guys suggest?

thanks.

 

[RebateMonger]

Supposedly, after you get the warning several times in Vista and Win7, you'll get an option to: "Do not display this warning (not recommended)."

 

[Motavian]

I had the same problem. I googled around for an hour and finally found a registry setting that let me turn off the warnings. Unfortunately I can't remember where I found it.

 

[leecope3]

sorry to re-open a new thread but i thought that be better than a duplicate one,

I have the exact same problem as the OP, with a drive ive been using for 3 years or so, wasnt a prob in xp i just disabled smart for this drive in bios and thats it, aparently windows 7 is special and monitors smart anyways and keeps moaning at me to replace the drive. (fails on multi error zone) but generally works perfectly,

i have told the error to go away many many times and still no option to ignore it.

this mentioned reg fix would, be nice if anyone can help

Lee

 

[leecope3]

ok sorry, the message to ignore it did eventually come up took almost a day for it to show, just for reference

 

[tweakboy]

I don't know why you would want to do that. Maybe you shut off the performance counter with a tweak app ,,,

 

[ViviTheMage]

Isn't there also a BIOS setting you can change?

 

[tweakboy]

hmm possibly BIOS Vivi, but I doubt it depends on mobo I guess good call though.

I believe turning off performance counter might do it. just google her in and see how to do it for your specific OS. gl

 

[leecope3]

turning it off in the bios didnt stop windows from showing me this,

 

[Wolfpup]

I can understand the frustration for the OP, but at the same time I'm relieved NT 6 does this. XP AFAIK didn't, or at least I had a system that gave no SMART warnings until after the drive was dead. That the OS pops up and tells you about them is great for me at least (not that I don't totally understand the OP's situation).

 

[Nothinman]

I can understand the frustration for the OP, but at the same time I'm relieved NT 6 does this. XP AFAIK didn't, or at least I had a system that gave no SMART warnings until after the drive was dead. That the OS pops up and tells you about them is great for me at least (not that I don't totally understand the OP's situation).

Yea, MS finally implements a safety function that other OSes have been doing for years and the first thing people want to do is turn it off...