Re: Disk Editor for USB drive?
- From: "Antoine Leca" <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:32:32 +0100
En news:442dl7F26tqU2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Arno Wagner va escriure:
> Previously User <noemail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a program like DiskEdit that will modify the mbr
>> or disk sectors for an external USB hard drive?
DSKPROBE (MS resource kit) does not work?
> Since an USB drive is just a sequence of sectors like a conventional
> HDD,
Yes.
> any editor should work. I am surprised it does not.
Reason is easy: USB is not (easily) available from DOS, and OTOH most sector
editors are (still) DOS-based.
You definitively better had to go with products that runs under Windows
(that's the way of the future at any rate).
> Unless in MS world the concept of a "blco device" is still
> unknown.
:-)
However, there is another point below which could be a problem (at least, it
is for related problems such as booting): Windows considers (don't ask me
why) USB devices as "removable" drives, even harddisks... I guess there are
ambiguity about what really means removing...
But as a bottom line, some disk editors may insist to operate only on
non-removable devices; in such a case, complain to the vendor, since it's a
bug that should be fixed a.s.a.p.
Antoine
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