SMART Monitoring Not Detected - Windows 7 x64

I like to keep an eye on my hard drive temperature, and I can in Windows XP, but on my dual-boot setup with Windows 7 x64 I have lost the ability to view temperatures. I've tried using Everest, Speed Fan and Active@ Disk Monitor and they all return the same result - that SMART detection is not available on my drives. My drives are SMART supported, and I have SMART monitoring enabled in my BIOS. I have tried running all programs with Administrator privelages, and my UAC settings are at default.

Right now I'm placing the blame on my motherboard's Vista x64 drivers (no Win7 drivers available), but if at all possible I'd like to see if anybody has experienced this problem and come up with a solution. After several google searches I have come up empty handed.

System specs below.

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Computer:
      Computer Type                                     ACPI x64-based PC
      Operating System                                  Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
      OS Service Pack                                   -
      Internet Explorer                                 8.0.7100.0
      DirectX                                           DirectX 10.0
      Computer Name                                     MAGNI
      User Name                                         Marcus
      Logon Domain                                      Magni
      Date / Time                                       2009-05-12 / 05:10

    Motherboard:
      CPU Type                                          DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E6550, 2333 MHz (7 x 333)
      Motherboard Name                                  ECS NF650iSLIT-A  (3 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
      Motherboard Chipset                               nVIDIA nForce 650i SLI
      System Memory                                     2048 MB  (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM)
      DIMM1: G Skill F2-6400CL5-2GBPQ                   2 GB DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM  (5-5-5-15 @ 400 MHz)  (4-4-4-10 @ 266 MHz)
      BIOS Type                                         Award (04/13/07)
      Communication Port                                Communications Port (COM1)

    Display:
      Video Adapter                                     NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT  (512 MB)
      Video Adapter                                     NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT  (512 MB)
      3D Accelerator                                    nVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
      Monitor                                           Acer X191W  [19" LCD]  (L950B0293913)

    Multimedia:
      Audio Adapter                                     nVIDIA nForce 430i (MCP51) - High Definition Audio Controller

    Storage:
      IDE Controller                                    Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
      Storage Controller                                AML1O8XQ IDE Controller
      Storage Controller                                NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller
      Storage Controller                                NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller
      Disk Drive                                        Kingston FCR-HS219/1 USB Device
      Disk Drive                                        Kingston FCR-HS219/1 USB Device
      Disk Drive                                        Kingston FCR-HS219/1 USB Device
      Disk Drive                                        Kingston FCR-HS219/1 USB Device
      Disk Drive                                        WDC WD16 00AAJS-00WAA SCSI Disk Device  (149 GB)
      Disk Drive                                        WDC WD50 00AAKS-00H2B SCSI Disk Device  (465 GB)
      Optical Drive                                     OPSXKF 6VKT2VKLI SCSI CdRom Device
      SMART Hard Disks Status                           Unknown

same problem here ...
I've tried Speedfan, Everest and a program called HDDLife and no one of these programs couldn't show me a S.M.A.R.T.
HDDLife showed me an error message - No HDD with SMART. (all of my hdds have SMART)
When I was on XP sp2, everything worked fine for me

any solution?

Still haven't found a solution on my end.

quite strange I think,
I've only figured out, that Everest can show me SMART of my ext. usb Seagate disc, other SATA drives ... nothing.

I'm getting the same thing. I'm using an Asus P5Q-E with the beta Windows 7 BIOS and drivers from the Asus support download website.

S.M.A.R.T. monitoring apps just don't see either of my SATA drives.

I am having the same issue under Vista x64 (similar kernel to Win7 I guess). Nothing I have tried has allowed me to read S.M.A.R.T values. Doesn't matter if I am in SATA, AHCI, IDE, RAID mode etc etc. Tried all sorts of driver / software combinations without any luck. EVEREST, HWMonitor, SpeedFan, ActiveSmart, PC Probe II.

If anyone figures this out, I would love to know- for now, I give up on the idea of monitoring my hard drives.

Found out why it wasn't working for me. My disks are running as a RAID device in Intel Storage Manager. Seems like the Intel chipset presents the RAID as a single logical disk, so monitoring applications have problems getting a handle on the S.M.A.R.T. values of the underlying components.

Intel® Matrix Storage Manager - Can't view S.M.A.R.T. values of hard drive after setting up RAID

Yes I knew about that RAID issue. However I am not running my ICH10R in "RAID" mode-- it is in AHCI mode and I have just a single non-RAID disk attached to the SATA port. In the BIOS it shows up on the "main" page as a regular drive and even says "SMART enabled" in there, so I have no idea why it can't read the value. Starting to piss me off but I am just ignoring for now.

Same for me and still waiting for a workaround...

Hi!

I had the same problem with my Win7 x64, but then I tried to run the software with elevated privileges and then SpeedFan found my hard drive.

--Roy