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I have administration of a computer - Compaq CQ1-2025 - that has not been hardware modified in any way. According to specifications it has a 320 GB SATA hard disk in it. When I ran SpinRite disk utility on it it said it could not read the SMART data from the hard drive. I cannot imagine a drive modern enough to be SATA not having SMART data publishing. Am I wrong? I know SpinRite can read SMART data because it has done so on other machines. Is this a bug in it or a hardware issue?
Do you use on-board RAID? – haimg – 2013-01-16T00:06:42.130
No, this machine does not have hardware RAID capabilities. – K.A.Monica – 2013-01-16T00:07:10.817
SpinRite? Try CrystalDiskInfo.
– Karan – 2013-01-16T05:53:00.913