DDO on hard drive

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by danjotom, Mar 12, 2006.

  1. danjotom

    danjotom Private First Class

    I recently installed a new o.s and now my hard drive that I use as a secondary ide channel master for storage will not function. It is a seagate 80gig, so I downloaded the disc wizard for windows from the seagate website and when I tried to install it it told me that the hard drive had a DDO that the o.s does not work with. What is going on? I do not want to format the drive as it has important shit on it.
     
    danjotom, Mar 12, 2006
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  2. Clark_Kent

    Clark_Kent MajorGeek

    FYI, the DDO is in the very first 512 bytes [200 hex] of the drive. That's where the partition table and MBR live.

    When a drive with DDO boots, the DDO code is loaded and functions as a "BIOS extender" providing large drive access to older BIOS.

    So how old is your bios is it and old board ???
     
    Clark_Kent, Mar 12, 2006
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