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- USING THE S.M.A.R.T. DRIVERS WITH WINDOWS 95
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- If you believe you have a SMART (Self-Monitoring And Reporting Technology)
- hard drive, but the SMART sensor in Norton System Doctor reports that no
- SMART drives can be found on your system, you may want to try installing
- the Microsoft SMART driver that we've provided for your convenience in the
- SMARTDRV folder on this CD. The original release of Windows 95 did not
- include these drivers as a part of its installation. If you are using
- Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2), the drivers were installed with
- Windows.
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- To install the driver, double-click SMARTUPD.EXE and follow the instructions
- on the screen.
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- SMART is built-in to newer hard drives. It allows these drives to monitor
- their own operation and predict most drive-hardware failures before they occur.
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- The Norton System Doctor SMART sensor warns when a disk drive failure is imminent,
- but this sensor only supports drives that have SMART built-in. With this warning,
- you can back up your files and replace or repair your drive before losing
- valuable data.
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