Windows 7 Hard Drive Failure

[jpjones1488]

When I first got my pc running win 7 was giving me hd failure notices on one of my drives, and I disabled the warnings. How do I turn these warnings back on again?

 

[patcooke]

Check your bios to see if there is an option there to enable/disable SMART.

 

[jpjones1488]

Check your bios to see if there is an option there to enable/disable SMART.

It is enabled.

 

[patcooke]

Try this - open the group policy editor (gpedit.msc)

Click on: local computer policy, computer configuration, administrative templates, system, troubleshooting and diagnostics, disk diagnostic.

Double click on: disk diagnostic: configure execution level

Select the option "enable"

 

[Adamsappleone]

Hello jp,

Try clicking on the Action Center Icon located in the Notification Tray (flag in lower right taskbar), then click open, then expand the Maintenance;

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If notifications have been turned off, under Drive Status, you should see "Turn On" in blue, just click to turn on.

Hope this helps,

Don

 

[jpjones1488]

Hello jp,

Try clicking on the Action Center Icon located in the Notification Tray (flag in lower right taskbar), then click open, then expand the Maintenance;

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If notifications have been turned off, under Drive Status, you should see "Turn On" in blue, just click to turn on.

Hope this helps,

Don

I don't see drive status in the action center.

 

[Adamsappleone]

Did you also try patcooke's suggestion?

 

[jpjones1488]

Yes I have tried that.

 

[Pauli]

What's the real problem? Your disk doesn't work, or?

 

[Adamsappleone]

Hello jp,

You've only disabled warnings for that particular drive, other than what's already been tried, you may want to try a "System Restore" to a point before you dismissed the warnings.

See if that will bring it back and keep us posted

Don

 

[Saltgrass]

Anyone know if the chkntfs command might be of some help? Maybe using the /d switch would reset the system.

Chkntfs

 

[maria178]

Yes I have tried that.

Check your bios to see if there is an option there to enable/disable SMART.Link Removed

 

[patcooke]

Check your bios to see if there is an option there to enable/disable SMART.Link Removed

That was the first thing we tried maria