Posts by dg1261

The Dell MBR for a HPA-based MediaDirect secretly stores a fifth partition table entry for the MD partition. When you press the MD button it quietly swaps that entry into the fourth slot of the real partition table, issues an IDE SETMAX...

Hitachi's Feature Tool should work on any hard disk that is ATA-4 compliant (the standard that introduced HPA). If exabytehd tries this, I'd be interested to hear whether the expansion sticks after booting back into Windows. (I'm...