Apricorn SMART-ER User Manual
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
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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w Introduction ................................................................... 4
w What is SMART-ER ......................................................... 4
w What is S.M.A.R.T. .......................................................... 4
w System Requirements ..................................................... 4
w Installing SMART-ER ....................................................... 5
w SMART-ER overview ........................................................ 7
w Drives property page ..................................................... 7
w Volumes property page...................................................... 8
w Alerts property page......................................................... 9
w Logging property page ..................................................... 10
w About property page ..................................................... 11
w How to register your trial version .................................... 12
w Send e-mail on SMART-ER alert ....................................... 12
w Simulate SMART error ................................................... 13
w SMART off-Line test ....................................................... 14
w Help menu .................................................................... 14
w Uninstalling SMART-ER...................................................... 15
w Contacting technical support .......................................... 15
w End User License Agreement .......................................... 16
w FAQ’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 SMARTER 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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