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From: MJMIII on 30 Apr 2010 18:46 "Brian K" <remove_this(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:xUGCn.22394$pv.2548(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > > Mike, > > I disagree with what you have been told. This issue is due to the Dell > MediaDirect 2 HPA. You can simply clone the old HD to a new HD without > experiencing truncation be zeroing LBA-3 on the old HD before you start. > Or by replacing the Dell MBR with a Standard MBR. > > http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/hpa-issues.htm > > http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/mediadirect.htm > > You don't have to zero LBA-3 on the old HD if you plan to restore an OS > image to the new HD. But you must not choose to "restore the MBR" when you > restore the image to the new HD. You definitely don't want the Dell MBR on > the new HD. I followed the Seagate tech's instruction and the drive still won't restore to 250GB. When I did the restore I wondered about the MBR. I guess I should've asked here first. After checking your links I guess Daddy was right. This is a common thread with Dell. Now that I know what to do I need to find a way to restore full drive capacity since the Seagate Tool doesn't work. -- "Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."
From: Brian K on 30 Apr 2010 18:51 If anyone has already cloned the old HD and has a truncated new HD, do this.... Download Roadkil's Sector Editor. http://www.roadkil.net/diskutils.html Unzip the file and copy sectedit.exe to a folder in your HD. Double click sectedit.exe. In the Select Disk box choose Physical 0 and click Open. (DON'T choose any of the drive letters). Use the arrows at the bottom right to find LBA-3. It should take 3 clicks. Your sector may look slightly different to the image below but if you find the "[XLDR]" string in the lower right, that's a good clue that you are looking at the right sector. http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b16/bjkdegree/lba-3_dan.gif Click Edit, Zero Data. Now you should see all zeroes. Click File, Save Sector. Close Roadkil. Double click sectedit.exe again, repeat the above choices and confirm that LBA-3 has been zeroed. There are several tools that can be used to unhide the HPA and return a hard disk to its full capacity. These include Hitachi Feature Tool, Seagate SeaTools, Magic Boot Disk (MHDD), and HDAT2, among others. I think the easiest to use is Seagate SeaTools for DOS. http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/ Burn the ISO with ImgBurn. Then... boot from the CD select your HD Advanced features Set Capacity to Max Native Exit Now you can boot to Windows and you should have the full capacity of your HD. I should mention that sometimes the first tool doesn't work. Then you need to try others.
From: Brian K on 30 Apr 2010 19:02 Mike, I didn't see you latest post before my recent posting. I helped a friend recently and all tools failed except for this variation of using HDAT2. It is poorly written but I eventually worked out what it meant. I wish I had written better instructions at the time but the. "Q: Host Protected Area (HPA) vs. 28/48-bit LBA mode A: There is a problem of incompatibility on some hard drives (e.g. Seagate) when you are using 48-bit command for removing Host Protected Area (HPA) created with 28-bit command. 48-bit command cannot remove HPA created with 28-bit command and vice-versa. Following solution is for disk supports 48-bit LBA mode only and if you have HPA greater than 127 GB. Solution: 1. Power-on PC, boot and start HDAT2. 2. In 'SET MAX (HPA) Menu' select 'Set Max Address'. Change 'LBA mode' from 48 to 28-bit LBA mode and press 'S' key to set maximal address for 28-bit LBA mode (127 GB). 3. Power-off PC (Important !), power-on PC, boot and start HDAT2. 4. In 'SET MAX (HPA) Menu' select 'Set Max Address'. Leave the selected 48-bit 'LBA mode' Change 'LBA mode' from 28 to 48-bit LBA mode and press 'S' key to set maximal address for 48-bit LBA mode. 5. After restart you should get the full (native) capacity of hard drive." These are my brief notes, written after the procedure.... You have to choose 28 bit, press S then Enter and restart. Next time 48 was present and S didn't work because the HPA was gone. I had already tried WD, Seagate, Hitachi. Didn't work. HD was Seagate SATA 60 GB.
From: MJMIII on 30 Apr 2010 19:11 I just finished reading that page and have already downloaded Sector Editor. As I said, Sea Tools errors out when I tried to set max size. Here's a stupid question. I was originally doing this in the laptop. Does it make a difference if I installed the drive in my desktop as an extra drive and booted to the Seagate disk? -- "Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you." "Brian K" <remove_this(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:8aJCn.22406$pv.6916(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > If anyone has already cloned the old HD and has a truncated new HD, do > this.... > > Download Roadkil's Sector Editor. > > http://www.roadkil.net/diskutils.html > > Unzip the file and copy sectedit.exe to a folder in your HD. > > Double click sectedit.exe. In the Select Disk box choose Physical 0 and > click Open. (DON'T choose any of the drive letters). Use the arrows at the > bottom right to find LBA-3. It should take 3 clicks. Your sector may look > slightly different to the image below but if you find the "[XLDR]" string > in the lower right, that's a good clue that you are looking at the right > sector. > > http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b16/bjkdegree/lba-3_dan.gif > > Click Edit, Zero Data. Now you should see all zeroes. Click File, Save > Sector. Close Roadkil. Double click sectedit.exe again, repeat the above > choices and confirm that LBA-3 has been zeroed. > > There are several tools that can be used to unhide the HPA and return a > hard disk to its full capacity. These include Hitachi Feature Tool, > Seagate SeaTools, Magic Boot Disk (MHDD), and HDAT2, among others. I think > the easiest to use is Seagate SeaTools for DOS. > > http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/ > > Burn the ISO with ImgBurn. Then... > > boot from the CD > select your HD > Advanced features > Set Capacity to Max Native > Exit > > Now you can boot to Windows and you should have the full capacity of your > HD. I should mention that sometimes the first tool doesn't work. Then you > need to try others. > >
From: MJMIII on 30 Apr 2010 19:21
Playing with Sea Tools I found if you press F5 when booting you get individual settings you can change and one of them is changing from 48 to 28. Anyhow, I just burned HDAT2 and I'm going to try that. Be back in a few. -- "Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you." "Brian K" <remove_this(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:akJCn.22409$pv.1034(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > Mike, > > I didn't see you latest post before my recent posting. I helped a friend > recently and all tools failed except for this variation of using HDAT2. It > is poorly written but I eventually worked out what it meant. I wish I had > written better instructions at the time but the. > > > "Q: Host Protected Area (HPA) vs. 28/48-bit LBA mode > > A: There is a problem of incompatibility on some hard drives (e.g. > Seagate) when you are using 48-bit command for removing Host Protected > Area (HPA) created with 28-bit command. > 48-bit command cannot remove HPA created with 28-bit command and > vice-versa. Following solution is for disk supports 48-bit LBA mode only > and if you have HPA greater than 127 GB. > Solution: > > 1. Power-on PC, boot and start HDAT2. > 2. In 'SET MAX (HPA) Menu' select 'Set Max Address'. Change 'LBA mode' > from 48 to 28-bit LBA mode and press 'S' key to set maximal address for > 28-bit LBA mode (127 GB). > 3. Power-off PC (Important !), power-on PC, boot and start HDAT2. > 4. In 'SET MAX (HPA) Menu' select 'Set Max Address'. Leave the selected > 48-bit 'LBA mode' Change 'LBA mode' from 28 to 48-bit LBA mode and press > 'S' key to set maximal address for 48-bit LBA mode. > 5. After restart you should get the full (native) capacity of hard drive." > > > > > These are my brief notes, written after the procedure.... > You have to choose 28 bit, press S then Enter and restart. Next time 48 > was present and S didn't work because the HPA was gone. I had already > tried WD, Seagate, Hitachi. Didn't work. HD was Seagate SATA 60 GB. > > > > |