Reset hard drive SMART status?

Question

My system board has a known problem where it cannot successfully recover from a suspend state (DFI confirms but will not fix the problem on this series of boards). I bought a new keyboard with media remote, and of course, accidentally hit the "sleep" button, which put the computer on suspend.

What happens then is that the system tries to wake up, but fails. I had to power-cycle the computer. When I did so, my 200gb Seagate SATA hard drive started reporting a SMART failure on Spin-Up Retry Count. This had to be caused by the failed resume from suspend, since there were no errors on the drive previously.

Since then, I have tested the drive dozens of ways, and it is not having any problems, nor has the error count increased. Yet, now every time I boot I get the "imminent failure" warning!! Nothing is wrong with the drive though - the retry errors were due to something else!

Is there any way I can reset the value on Spin Up Retry? Or should I just warranty the drive?

Answer 1

I agree with darconogan to turn of your SMART drive capability in the BIOS. You don't need it, especially on a home system and it does tend to cause problems.

Good Luck

Answer 2

Reset Smart Status

Answer 3

feels like the HD is fried to me too. that's fairly plenty all you're able to do to it on a Mac. in basic terms different factor i could do is acquire a replica ISO of Gparted and format it applying that. now and returned the Disk Util on the macs messes up now and returned. I quite have labored repairing macs for years and OSX now and returned had an isse approximately this.

Answer 4

You can clear the drive using Seagate tools and it should reset.

Answer 5

You can just turn SMART off by going into bios and disabling it. SMART will actually slow down your HDD access time, and is overhead on the system.