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Are there operation systems that actually honor the results of SMART out of the box and tell the user to change the drive? Do they even do SMART test runs on their own?

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Under Windows 7 or Vista you get this message if it detects a SMART error:

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Windows operating systems before Vista don't check SMART status at all and will simply show a lot of 'disk' errors in Event Viewer before finally grinding to a halt, or possibly bluescreening.

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