"disable smart disk failure on system start up?"?

Question

i have a laptop,while system start up it pops up "smart failure disk predicted ,a failure may be iminent,backup ur data ,press F1 to continue"

i want to sell my laptop,but need to disable this or ignore this warning somehow,any thoughts?

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Answer 1

Why do you want to sell a lemon?

New hard-drives are under $100 and then you can honistly sell it without any worry!  Or just sell it as-is and say it needs a new hard-drive.

I don't know that there is any way to disable it, the whole point of that error is to warn you the hard-drive needs to be replaced or you could loose all your information.

Answer 2

You can disable the SMART checkup in the bios. If the option isn't there, there is a program that can turn it off. it is called Smartmontools. Here is the download link:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles...

It is the top one (the .exe file) just download it and install it. It is a little tricky to use but ill keep it simple. Open the start menu, look for smartmontools, and start smartctl (cmd). in the console screen type in "smartclt -s off hda" that will turn off SMART. good luck.

Answer 3

smart is built into the hard drive...and it's illegal to sell someone something like that knowing that there's a major fault with it