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Jason Miller

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I know your all going to say to replace the hard drive. The hard drive was showing read errors because of a bad power supply. This set off the smart on the hard drive saying read errors. after replacing power supply no more errors and i have ran test and the drive test good but the smart test is still showing that the drive needs to be replaced because of the past read errors and it is making windows 8 pop up saying replace the hard drive.

Is there a way to reset smart?

before you tell me to RMA it. It's out of warranty. It's a oem drive in a system.
 
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Sounds like you need to replace it. SMART errors cannot be reset. It may have been caused by a pad PSU - it's very common for a lower quality PSU to take other hardware with it. Better PSUs will have protection against most of that stuff.
 
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It's funny when i run a new smart test on it. It tells me that it looks like my hard drive was failing in the past and now it appears to not be failing. that this is very strange.

After replacing the power supply the read errors went back within specs of the hard drive and are no longer over threshold. I just wish there was a way to reset it since there really is nothing wrong with it but the smart thinks there used to be something wrong with it. It just sucks to throw out a 3tb hard drive.
 
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A bad PSU can cause errors like that. If the HDD is not getting enough power or power is fluctuating, you could see HDD errors. If you are certain the HDD is fine, then keep it. But you won't be able to purge the past errors.
 
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When a manufacturer refurbishes a drive that has a history of bad sectors due to a weak or failed head, the faulty head is disabled in the firmware and the drive is "recertified" at a lower capacity. This process is referred to as "selfscan" or "burn-in".

If all you want to do is to clear SMART, then you would need to tell us the model number. Some drives have a proprietary diagnostic command for this purpose.
 
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