No, Acronis or Dell PC cannot change a firmware of hard disk. I think it is Host Protected Area (HPA) only. Just download any program to check if HPA is present and remove it with SET MAX ADDRESS command. It is really simple (if I am not wrong).
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Thane Sherrington < th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote: > At 03:03 PM 1/13/2010, Tim Lider wrote: > >> Is the computer you cloned it from able to access the data on the >> computer? >> If so, then it could be the dell does not recognize the 160GB hard drive >> correctly. I have seen this many times on Legacy machines that do not have >> LBA32 or higher drive mapping. >> > > This is a fairly recent computer so it should be able to see larger drives. > And when I move the hard drive back from the Dell to the cloning system, > the BIOS on the cloning system also states that the drive is 98.5GB. > Western Digital morons told that Acronis had "cloned the size of the drive > from the source drive" but of course that's a load of crap, and when I > rebooted after cloning, the drive reported its size normally. So for some > reason, installing the drive in the Dell overwrites the firmware in the > drive and sets the size to 98.5GB. I've yet to find a way to flash the > firmware on the WD drive. > > > Also, were there any bad sectors on the drive during the clone? If so, this >> is probably why the drive is BSOD'ing. >> > > There were, but Acronis copied without complaint. > > T > > > >
