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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 12:09:22 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott   
   Dorsey) wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   That's encouraging.    
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   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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