I highly recommend TechTool Pro 4 from Micromat. Among a huge assortment of testing tools it does a very detailed testing of the SMART status of your hard Drive and returns a detailed summary in its report. jg Dr. Trevor J. Hutley typed this message on 11/21/04 11:28 AM: > I cannot answer for someone else, but I can comment that Disk Warrior > seems to be able to read the SMART status. I just used it to check > my hard disk and it reported: > > "this hard drive's built-in SMART diagnostics indicate the drive is > functioning normally"