Apricorn SMART-ER Manuale utente
USER GUIDE
APRICORN’S SMART-ER UTILITY
for SMART Error Reporting and Healthy Hard Drives
Be alerted to potential problems before your
hard drive or system crashes.
Ver 2.0
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Copyright Notice
The SMART-ER manual and program are copyrighted with all rights reserved to
Apricorn, Inc. Your rights are subject to the limitations and restrictions imposed by
the copyright laws of the United States of America. Please note that you may not
use, copy, modify, or transfer the program or documentation or any copy, except as
expressly provided in the license agreement.
The above is not an inclusive statement of the restrictions imposed on you under
the Copyright Act. For a complete statement of the restrictions imposed on you
under the copyright laws of the United States of America see Title 17, United States
Code.
Copyright 2007.
License Agreement
The SMART-ER software is licensed, not sold, to you by Apricorn, Inc. for use under
the terms of the license. You can read the End User License agreement in full
starting on page 16 in this manual or read it from the software installer during the
installation process.
By indicating your acceptance of the license agreement during installation of the
Software, you agree to be bound by that license agreement and that it is the only
agreement between you and Apricorn regarding the Software and documentation.
Trademarks
SMART-ER® is a registered trademark of Apricorn, Inc. Windows® and NT are
trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All product are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective companies.
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Table of Contents
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wIntroduction ................................................................... 4
wWhat is SMART-ER ......................................................... 4
wWhat is S.M.A.R.T. .......................................................... 4
w System Requirements ..................................................... 4
wInstalling SMART-ER ....................................................... 5
wSMART-ER overview ........................................................ 7
w Drives property page ..................................................... 7
w Volumes property page...................................................... 8
w Alerts property page......................................................... 9
w Logging property page ..................................................... 10
wAbout property page ..................................................... 11
wHow to register your trial version .................................... 12
wSend e-mail on SMART-ER alert ....................................... 12
wSimulate SMART error ................................................... 13
wSMART off-Line test ....................................................... 14
wHelp menu .................................................................... 14
wUninstalling SMART-ER...................................................... 15
wContacting technical support .......................................... 15
wEnd User License Agreement .......................................... 16
wFAQ’s ............................................................................ 19
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Introduction
What is SMART-ER?
SMART-ER (SMART-Error Reporting) is a utility that monitors the health
of your hard drive and can provide timely information that may help you
avoid losing your valuable data due to drive failure. The Apricorn SMART-
ER utility periodically monitors the health status of a system’s internal
hard drive. This system utility taps into the information provided by the
S.M.A.R.T capabilities built into all modern IDE hard drives. The Apricorn
SMART-ER utility is designed as a natural extension of the operating
system. It installs itself as a System Tray icon (on the task bar, lower right,
next to the time) and will monitor each drive’s SMART health status and
each volume’s free space at periodic intervals. If a drive’s health status
changes, the user is instantly notied. Optionally, an E-mail alert can be
sent to a designated support person. This allows the corrective action
before the drive actually starts to fail, although it should be noted that
S.M.A.R.T cannot predict ALL drive failures. The only fail-safe way to
protect against data loss from a catastrophic drive failure is to implement a
regular backup plan. Check out Apricorn’s website (www.apricorn.com) for
our “EZ” to use backup utility.
What is S.M.A.R.T.?
S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
and was developed to give hard drive users an advance warning about
possible future failures. S.M.A.R.T. monitors many aspects of a drive’s
health status, including spin-up time, spindle speed variance, seek errors
and reallocated sectors. Each drive manufacturer sets thresholds for
each of these parameters. When one of these parameters is exceeded, a
S.M.A.R.T. status error is reported.
System Requirements
Hardware Requires an IDE, Ultra ATA or SATA hard drives
that utilize S.M.A.R.T. technology
Operating Systems Supports Vista/XP/2003/2000/NT for Limited
Users or Administrators
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Installing SMART-ER
1. Save all unsaved documents in other running application programs and
close all programs.
2. If SMART-ER was included for FREE on your Apricorn software CD,
from the main menu click on the “Install SMART-ER” button and then
on the window with the registration number click on the “Install
SMART-ER Software” button. If you downloaded it, click on the
SMART-ER Setup.msi le.
3. The License Agreement Dialog appears. Please read through rst and
Click <YES> if you accept the terms.
4. On the “Install For” window you have the option to choose between
installing the program for all users or you only. Check the appropriate
box and Click <Next> to continue.
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5. Choose the Destination Drive location. This will select the folder where
Setup will install the les. Click <Next>
6. Click <Install> to begin the installation, once completed Click <Finish>
When the installation is complete, you will notice a SMART-ER
icon in your system tray. Your system tray is located in the lower right-
hand corner of your desktop. By pointing your mouse over the
SMART-ER icon, you will get a message “SMART-ER status: OK.”
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SMART-ER Overview
Click on the SMART-ER icon in the system tray, and the program
displays its main window. This is the SMART-ER Properties Directory.
You can access all areas of SMART-ER through its Directory.
Drives Property Page
This property page is used to view the system S.M.A.R.T. status, drive
S.M.A.R.T. status and IDE/ATA parameters. You can run a S.M.A.R.T.
off-line test on the drive selected.
If you have more than one internal hard drive on your system, you
can select it from the Select Drive drop-down box. Every time you pick
a new drive the IDE/ATA parameters will change to match that hard
drive selected.
Click on the check boxes to enable or disable the option for the
selected drive. SMART-ER is not functioning until the enable check box
is checked. Furthermore, if you have more than one hard drive on your
system, you would need to select each hard drive and enable SMART-
ER by checking the box ‘Enable SMART Status Monitoring.’ Click OK
to save all changes made on any of the property page. Click cancel to
discard any changes made.
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Volumes Property Page
The Volumes property page is used to view the system free space,
volume space status, volume information and conguration options for
each volume.
Conguration options can also be changed for each volume. Select the
volume you want from the Select Volume drop-down box.
To monitor the free space on the hard drive, click on the check box
to enable this monitoring to occur. Adjust the slider to the desired
free space minimum for the selected volume. If the free space on this
volume falls below this percentage, SMART-ER will issue an alert.
Note: Although smart error reporting is not supported on external
hard drives, they will be listed on this page with their Drive letter as a
volume and you will be able to monitor their free space.
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Alerts Property Page
The Alerts property page is used to view and change SMART-ER’s alert
options. The polling period for both the S.M.A.R.T. status and free
space checks can be set from every 5 minutes to every 8 hours. The
default polling period for both is every hour.
E-mail alerts can be enabled for S.M.A.R.T. errors, free space errors or
both.
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Logging Property Page
The Logging property page is used to view the SMART-ER error
log. This log will capture information when you are alerted and
acknowledge the SMART error.
If you click on the Clear button, this will erase all the error condition
alerts and acknowledgments in the SMART-ER error log.
If you click on the Print button, it will print all error condition alerts and
acknowledgments recorded since the error log was last cleared.
Note: The log is stored as a le in the SMART-ER directory.
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