I was thinking more like hardware encryption from the laptop On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Jimmy Tran <jt...@teachtci.com> wrote:
> Nope, is is Win7 Pro so no bitlocker.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, July 29, 2011 9:11 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e**** > > ** ** > > any chance the laptop is using encryption ?**** > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Jimmy Tran <jt...@teachtci.com> wrote:** > ** > > The drive is a 250GB 7200K drive. I'm fairly certain this is using 4KiB > sectors. I did an alignment test with some of their tools and everything > shows as it is a 4KiB Drive. > > I wiped the factory partitions out, reinstalled W7 image from WDS and still > the same problem. I cannot read this drive outside of that laptop. I > docked it in my W7 box and it still shows it as an unknown/raw partition. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:13 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Jimmy Tran <jt...@teachtci.com> wrote: > > So I just purchased a Dell Latitude E6520 laptop. In the package I found > a > > yellow notice about 512e drives. So I read about this and it looks like > the > > partitioning of the drive is different. > > Do you have a hard disk larger 1 terabyte or larger? If not, then > as far as I know, it doesn't apply. It appears nobody is implementing > 4 KiB sectors except on drives that big. > > Even if your hard disk *is* larger than 1 terabyte, your drive may > or may not be using 4 KiB sectors internally. You'd have to check > with Dell to see if you have one of those drives. > > Dell appears to be putting that note in everything they ship, > regardless of how big the drive is. We just got an E6520 with a 128 > GB SSD and it had that note. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > ** ** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
