> If I want to upgrade my IDE Hard drive by my self, how can I
> restore that kind of data on other diferent PC?
So the content of the HPA should be limited to program which are
special: a boot loader is position dependant and you do not want
to copy it blindly to another hard disk with maybe
>> Note that this HPA is a good place to store a bootloader too, in fact
>> I like to think of it as the big floppy drive of the PC which no more
>> have any floppy drive: create a FAT filesystem of 64 Mbytes there and
>> copy all the floppy you used to have there. Your bootloader, if it
>> is goo
El Jueves, 4 de Agosto de 2005 07:11, Etienne Lorrain escribió:
> > > > My question is now: why is an HPA disabled i.e. disprotected when
> > > > detected? Why not let the HPA alone, because a certain set of disk
> > > > sectors shall not be accessible by the OS?
> > >
> > > Because the HPA is most
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>> > > My question is now: why is an
> > > My question is now: why is an HPA disabled i.e. disprotected when
> > > detected? Why not let the HPA alone, because a certain set of disk
> > > sectors shall not be accessible by the OS?
> >
> > Because the HPA is most commonly used to hide all but a fraction of a
> > disk to work with older
On Iau, 2005-08-04 at 09:14 +0200, Oliver Tennert wrote:
> partitioning and filesystems. The point is, IF there is an HPA, there MIGHT
> be a partitioning scheme and some filesystems on the disk which rely on the
> size of disk being the native size MINUS the HPA.
Thats fine, Linux is quite happ
On Friday, 22. July 2005 16:47, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Do I interpret it right that the following is done in the above function:
>
> Aside from the version in most kernels being buggy yes
>
> > My question is now: why is an HPA disabled i.e. disprotected when
> > detected? Why not let the HPA alone, b
> Do I interpret it right that the following is done in the above function:
Aside from the version in most kernels being buggy yes
> My question is now: why is an HPA disabled i.e. disprotected when detected?
> Why not let the HPA alone, because a certain set of disk sectors shall not be
> acce
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