Estimated Hard Disk failure

hey, im just curious what prog do u use to detect this kind of hardware failure?

and also, hope u dont mind, im gonna put the bart's pic on my site eh.

I'm using a SMART monitor.

SMART = Self Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology

Specifically, I use SMART IDE Guardian.

For reference about SMART, see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q208048

As for Bart, feel free.

a cool program. compiled the smartapp.exe from ms, works fine. now im gonna dl siguardian. see how it goes. :) thx for the bart pic :)

Caleb, well, it's estimated anyway.
So, if it happens before or after 15 Mar,
you'll give me $10? ;)

Why bet so big? Bill Gates bet $1 with Warren Buffet whenever they bet on anything.

We could meet up for coffee no matter who wins, the loser treats the coffee. How's that?

Anyway, I'll be buying a new hard disk within the next 2 days.

I think I bought my hard disk in Jan 2001. So, it's about 3 years 1 month. Quite reasonable life span, don't you think?