Have you read this information about HPA (host protected area) on Wikipedia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_protected_area
It might provide some help with removing it. However, I suspect that
the problem is as you have assumed that it can't be done with an
usb-to-ide adapter because of the wa
I too have always used xp on fat! As for ide to sata adapter, the sata
machine is too cramped to fit it. As for "wipe", is that a dos app? Are you
sure it could remove the HPA partition? I have already used a bootable
cd with active killdisk to wipe the drive, but, ostensibly, regular wipers
canno
