Stay away from PM8, it's has so many bugs it is not
funny! Burnt me too
many times in past 2 years after loyally using for a
long time. These
days I use Acronis Disk Director.
All partitions should be byte for byte copyable with
True Image and the
MBR partition tables are standard no matter
Their BIOS setup is on that partition IIRC. Loose it
and loose access to
the BIOS setup.
Winterlight wrote:
I don't care about the utilities, but the BIOS? If
that is true then you
can't just upgrade a hard drive on Compaq's with a
simple clean
install... you would have to restore the
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From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Compaq hidden partition
That is assuming, of course, that Ghost won't freak out with the crazy
partition.
I do not want
Yes, Duh if you don't have the driver set, an OS
disk valid key,
don't do the work. That said, kill that little Compaq
partition on some
models (maybe only circa 2000, haven't worked on a
new one) and loose
access to the BIOS setup. May not keep you from
booting via HDD (since
BIOS reset
j maccraw wrote:
As for the Dell guy, all they would do is use the Dell
restore CD to
revert it back to shipping state or they would ship
the unit back to
Dell if it needed more than could be swapped on site.
Compaq of course
would say ship it back or buy a new PC.
FYI, Dell restore CD's
It does seem so. This educational experience has been so thrilling
that I believe I am going to not register from the next class! LOL!
Now that the build is finished, I do know that I am now this
Dell mutt's Doctor-for-life. Or, at least, until the owner finds another
Doctor. :)
Best,
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From: j maccraw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List
hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Compaq hidden partition
partition on some
models (maybe only circa 2000, haven't worked on a
new one)
Thanks for all the help and comments. I was finally able to work with
the drive using Acronis Disk Manager. Once I was able to create a
Backup partition I was then able to create a drive image backup
without error. Just for a test, I unplugged the hard drive and
attempted to boot off my flash
I have a Lite-On SH-16A7S DVD burner and am looking for some good high
speed dual layer blanks. I currently use Ritek Ridata 2.4X DVD+R DL:
http://www.supermediastore.com/ritek-ridata-double-layer-dl-dvd-plus-r-cake-box.html
Good stuff but man it takes forever at 2.4. Anyone have experience
At 08:19 PM 6/2/2007, you wrote:
I have a Lite-On SH-16A7S DVD burner and am looking for some good high
speed dual layer blanks. I currently use Ritek Ridata 2.4X DVD+R DL:
http://www.supermediastore.com/ritek-ridata-double-layer-dl-dvd-plus-r-cake-box.html
Good stuff but man it takes forever
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