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  2. Host protected area - Wikipedia

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    IDENTIFY DEVICE returns the true size of the hard drive. READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS returns the true size of the hard drive. SET MAX ADDRESS reduces the reported size of the hard drive. READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS returns the true size of the hard drive. An HPA has been created. IDENTIFY DEVICE returns the now fake size of the hard drive.

  3. PlayStation 5 - Wikipedia

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    In the UK, the PS5 was the best-selling video game console sold in the month of November. [178] In Spain, the PS5 sold over 43,000 units in the first week of release. [179] Sony reported total shipments of the PS5 through its fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2020 of 4.5 million units, which were similar numbers to the PS4's launch shipments.

  4. Drive letter assignment - Wikipedia

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    MS-DOS/PC DOS versions 4.0 and earlier assign letters to all of the floppy drives before considering hard drives, so a system with four floppy drives would call the first hard drive E:. Starting with DOS 5.0, the system ensures that drive C: is always a hard disk, even if the system has more than two physical floppy drives.

  5. Disk partitioning - Wikipedia

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    With DOS, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2, a common practice is to use one primary partition for the active file system that will contain the operating system, the page/swap file, all utilities, applications, and user data. On most Windows consumer computers, the drive letter C: is routinely assigned to this primary partition. Other partitions may ...

  6. Non-RAID drive architectures - Wikipedia

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    Non-RAID drive architectures also exist, and are referred to by acronyms with tongue-in-cheek similarity to RAID: JBOD (just a bunch of disks): described multiple hard disk drives operated as individual independent hard disk drives. SPAN or BIG: A method of combining the free space on multiple hard disk drives from "JBoD" to create a spanned ...

  7. Manage your AOL username

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    All Primary and secondary usernames are now considered their own account, however, if you log in to myaccount.aol.com and scroll down to the Usernames section, you will be able to view any old secondary usernames associated with your Primary username. This can be useful when deleting your account, as a Primary username can't be closed if there ...

  8. System partition and boot partition - Wikipedia

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    The boot partition is a primary partition that contains the boot loader, a piece of software responsible for booting the operating system. For example, in the standard Linux directory layout ( Filesystem Hierarchy Standard ), boot files (such as the kernel , initrd , and boot loader GRUB ) are mounted at /boot/ . [ 1 ]

  9. Partition type - Wikipedia

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    The partition type (or partition ID) in a partition's entry in the partition table inside a master boot record (MBR) is a byte value intended to specify the file system the partition contains or to flag special access methods used to access these partitions (e.g. special CHS mappings, LBA access, logical mapped geometries, special driver access, hidden partitions, secured or encrypted file ...