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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Paul S Person   wrote:   
   >Well, except perhaps for HP. I am wondering what to do with the HP   
   >Envy drive: since the power button died, I had no opportunity to use   
   >Eraser on it. Removing it and putting it into an enclosure would be an   
   >option -- and give me another 2TB drive unless I decided to put it   
   >back in the HP Envy and buy another drive for the enclosure. But   
   >whether this would work or whether the drive would turn out to be   
   >specially manufactured for HP and not work with an encloure is   
   >unclear. I /have/ read reports indicating that this is a problem --   
      
   HP and Dell have some model drives with special firmware that get   
   checked by the bios, which will refuse to accept non-native drives.   
   The HP drives will work on other machines, but if you want to put a   
   SATA drive on the HP machine it has to be HP-branded.  HP Gen9   
   servers are like this, Gen8 and Gen7 are not.  I know nothing about   
   desktops but I know far too much about HP.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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