It appears Disk Director 10 made my hard drive completely useless.
I have a Samsung 120 GB EIDE which had a lot of junk data collected over a couple of years. I decided the best way to handle it was to just wipe the drive, using another computer, and reinstall Win XP fresh. At some point during the wipe, DD 10 "hung up" , stalled, whatever you want to call it. It would not respond to any mouse or keyboard actions, and I had to use the computer's "reset" to get out of DD 10. When I was able to get back into operation, I found that the computer could not "see" that drive at all, and a DOS-based diagnostic run from a floppy told me that the drive's S.M.A.R.T. status was BAD. So. how did DD 10 interfere with the SMART setup, and what do I do now??? Is there any way to reset the SMART status short of sending the drive in to the factory???
Bill H

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Bodgy:
Thank you.. It sounds as if that's strictly a job for the factory, and I'm sure you're right about it not being cost-effective.
One of the DOS diagnostics I ran said something about the drive having been subjected to temperatures of above 70 degrees C. I discounted that, since I could not imagine how that could happen without any signs of heat on anything else in the machine. There are plastics in there with melting points below that. Hard drives don't cost all that much these days, so I'll chalk it up to experience and get a new drive.
Bill H
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In respect to the 70 deg C bit, it is possible for the IC's to have reached this internally - your CPU in the PC can reach 60 or more deg C.
Touch the case of one of your working drives after you've had the PC on for more than an hour or the CPU heatsink - you'll be surprised.
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