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.
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Table of Contents Page# 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 ...............................................
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.
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 file. 3. The License Agreement Dialog appears. Please read through first and Click if you accept the terms. 4.
5. Choose the Destination Drive location. This will select the folder where Setup will install the files. Click 6. Click to begin the installation, once completed Click When the installation is complete, you will notice a SMART-ER icon in your system tray. Your system tray is located in the lower righthand corner of your desktop. By pointing your mouse over the SMART-ER icon, you will get a message “SMART-ER status: OK.
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.
Volumes Property Page The Volumes property page is used to view the system free space, volume space status, volume information and configuration options for each volume. Configuration 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.
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.
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 file in the SMART-ER directory.
About Property Page The About property page displays information about the SMART-ER program. Click on the Apricorn Website to launch a browser and view more information about SMART-ER and Apricorn’s other products.
How to enter your registration number If SMART-ER was included for FREE on your Apricorn software CD, you will find the registration number on the “Install SMART-ER Software” window. Click on the SMART-ER icon in your system tray (lower right-hand corner of your desktop). Click on the About Page, click on the Register Button. Enter your registration number here and click . You just successfully registered SMART-ER. Click .
Simulate SMART Error On the Drives Property Page, you will notice a feature to Simulate a SMART Error. To enable this feature click on the check box and click OK. A window will pop up with a SMART Error Detected (Simulated).
Simulate SMART Error Cont. If you have your E-mail alert enabled during the SMART error simulation, the person you setup to receive the E-mail alert should receive an E-mail. This dialog box is a warning that a SMART error condition (Simulated) has been detected for the drive shown. To acknowledge the alert, click on the Acknowledge SMART error condition (Simulated) check box and click OK.
Uninstall SMART-ER To uninstall SMART-ER, first, close the program in the system tray. 1. Right click on the SMART-ER icon in the system tray. 2. Click on close. Now that SMART-ER utility is closed we can uninstall the program. Uninstall through “All Programs” menu 1. Click on Start / All Programs / Apricorn / SMART-ER / Uninstall SMART-ER 2. A window will pop up with “Are your sure you want to uninstall this program” click to uninstall or to close the uninstall program.
APRICORN SMART-ER End User License Agreement BY INSTALLING OR USING THE SMART-ER SOFTWARE (“SOFTWARE”) OF APRICORN, INC. (“APRICORN”), YOU ARE CONSENTING TO BE BOUND BY AND ARE BECOMING A PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE. LICENSE GRANT.
WHERE YOU OBTAINED THIS LICENSE DOES NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS, THE DURATION OF ANY AND ALL APPLICABLE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, IF ANY, SHALL BE LIMITED TO ONE (1) YEAR AFTER YOU DOWNLOAD THE SOFTWARE. NO DEALER, AGENT, OR EMPLOYEE OF APRICORN IS AUTHORIZED TO MAKE ANY MODIFICATIONS, EXTENSIONS, OR ADDITIONS TO THIS LIMITED WARRANTY.
U.S. GOVERNMENT END USERS. The Software is a “commercial item,” as that term is defined in 48 C.F.R. 2.101 (Oct. 1995), consisting of “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer software documentation,” as such terms are used in 48 C.F.R. 12.212 (Sept. 1995). Consistent with 48 C.F.R. 12.212 and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202-1 through 227.7202-4 (June 1995), all U.S. Government End Users acquire the Software with only those rights set forth in this Agreement. GENERAL.
FAQ’s How do I purchase & register my trial version? Click on the SMART-ER icon in your system tray (lower right-hand corner of your desktop). Click on the About Page. Click on the Purchase Button. After you purchase SMART-ER you will recieve an email with your registration number for SMART-ER. Click on the About Page, click on the Register Button. Enter your registration number here and click . You just successfully registered SMART-ER. Click .
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