disk partitioning program most likely, like partition commander or acronis disk
director.
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IEC Units: Computer RAM & SSD measurements, microsoft disk size measurements
(note: they will say GB or MB or KB or TB when it is IEC Units!):
[KiB] [MiB] [GiB] [TiB]
[2^10B=1,024^1B=1KiB]
[2^20B=1,024^2B=1,048,576B=1MiB]
[2^30B=1,024^3B=1,073,741,824B=1GiB]
[2^40B=1,024^4B=1,099,511,627,776B=1TiB]
[2^50B=1,024^5B=1,125,899,906,842,624B=1PiB]
SI Units: Hard disk industry disk size measurements:
[kB] [MB] [GB] [TB]
[10^3B=1,000B=1kB]
[10^6B=1,000,000B=1MB]
[10^9B=1,000,000,000B=1GB]
[10^12B=1,000,000,000,000B=1TB]
[10^15B=1,000,000,000,000,000B=1PB]
>________________________________
> From: kurt godel <wb2...@gmail.com>
>To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 6:47 AM
>Subject: [Freedos-devel] Can hpa be cleared through USB port?
>
>
>
>Modern hard drives can have an HPA(host protected access partition) placed on
>them; this partition is not accessible in an ordinary way. I have an old 80
>gig drive with 74 megabytes of space wasted on this.
> When the drive is internally connected to a computer, y6ou can use the
>linux function 'hdparm' to remove the HPA,based on the numbers shown by
>hdparm. However,when attempting to use the hdparm
>with the drive connected externally through a ide to USB adapter, I get a
>message "bad or missing sense data" with no useful information. Furthermore, I
>have gotten the same message with flash drives and
>sd cards, making it impossible to remove the HPA they all seem to have today.
> The cherry on it is that I thought to slap the drive in an old ide type
>machine to hit it with hdparm, but the machine is nonfunctional; my other
>machine is sata only.
> Any ideas on this problem out there?.
>
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