Hidden spot on hard drives?
Gary W. Swearingen
garys at opusnet.com
Thu Oct 6 09:22:48 PDT 2005
Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> writes:
> Where does HPA(Host protected Area) sit in all this? is this the
> 'boot sector' trick?
I don't know. I just heard that some computer makers are somehow
reserving as much as half the HDD for a full copy of the OS to recover
from when the normal one trips over itself. I'm guessing that this has
more to do with MSFT licensing terms than with saving a buck from not
including a CDROM. I wonder if there's some low-level way to tell a
modern disk drive where you want "sector 0" to start.
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