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Rolf,

I can't quite see in th eimage you've posted, but if that is an Error 15, check in Windows Event Manager. There are a number of spurious events that Windows 7 occasionally throws up - not even Microsoft seem to know what they mean, but is reported in the Microsoft forums.

Hi Colin,
thanks for your response!
May I send you the unreadable picture/image by E-Mail?
I.e.: Could you provide me an E-Mail address to send it to as a
mail attachment (e.g. .docx format)?
Kind regards Rolf Erbe.

today, March 19th, I get a message from 'forum.acronis.com/messages' but cannot tead it because
always get answer "Error HTTP 403 - you don't have the access right to read this message" ???
I really don't know, what to do now ...
Rolf Erbe

Rolf,

The private message was from me (probably). Try sending a message to me, see if that works.

Hi Colin,
since ADM/Windows 7 provided no meaningful output I tried to edit the logfiles written by ADM in .xml format myself, but have still a problem to find out the real meaning of those. Please find attached a sample with 2 questions at the end. Maybe you can give an answer to them?
Regards Rolf Erbe.

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Rolf,

ID=7 is the SMART code for Seek Error Rate - so the drive when interrogated sends a code 7 to ADM or other monitor software and they convert it to human language - Seek Error Rate.

As to what your result actually means I can't help you, each manaufacturer and monitor software put different meanings to it, but what I can say is that if it drops below the threshold value (for this particular report) then something might be wrong with the drive. I'd double check by downloading the drive makers disk check utility. Western Digital have one as do Seagate.

If you look in the result.xml file you will see the list of parameters your drive supports.

Here are some of the shortened entries.

<info capacity="1000204886016" drive_name="Seagate ST31000528AS" drive_number="2" is_failure_predicted="0" is_smart_status_ok="1" partitions_name="Q:" pnp_id="IDE\DISKST31000528AS_CC37____\5&2FFDF8A0&0&1.0.0">

<smart>
<attribute id="1" name="Read Error Rate" raw_value="190371385" status="1" threshold_value="6" value="118" worst_value="99" />
<attribute id="3" name="Spin-Up Time" raw_value="0" status="1" threshold_value="0" value="95" worst_value="95" />
<attribute id="4" name="Start/Stop Count" raw_value="3855" status="1" threshold_value="20" value="97" worst_value="97" />
<attribute id="5" name="Reallocated Sectors Count" raw_value="0" status="1" threshold_value="36" value="100" worst_value="100" />
</smart>