Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:26:08 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hidden spot on hard drives? Message-ID: <lmmzlmwr1b.zlm@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <434531A6.4080401@meijome.net> (Norberto Meijome's message of "Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:16:06 %2B1000") References: <20051005184437.GA36369@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <0bvf0bwk7k.f0b@mail.opusnet.com> <434531A6.4080401@meijome.net>
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Norberto Meijome <freebsd@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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