QUESTION :
Win7 won’t finish loading on my laptop, and I’m trying to find a way to get any tool, like smartctl, onto a USB stick so that I can check the hard drives.
I’ve used wmic which says the drives are OK, but I wanted to see if I could dig any deeper.
The problem with smartctl is that I can only download the Windows setup exe, which is no help since I’ve only got my laptop and a linux machine to work with. Obviously I should have installed smartctl before I had this issue 🙁
hdtune would have been good as well, but I can’t run it from the command prompt, even if i could get it installed.
This question is a result of my earlier question Intel RAID0 physical device error occurred(0), Win7 won’t run but disks seem OK – is it salvageable?
I’ve seen this question below but can’t use any of the solutions (except wmci)
ANSWER :
You could use powershell, but it still doesn’t give you much info:
Make sure your command prompt has elevated privileges (right click, run as admin) and type the following:
powershell “(Get-WmiObject -namespace root/wmi -class MSStorageDriver_FailurePredictStatus -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select PSComputerName, InstanceName, Active, PredictFailure, Reason | Format-Table -AutoSize)”
If PredictFailure is True, the drive has a problem. The reason code could then be used to lookup the failure. Each vendor uses their own set of reason codes.