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Computer manufacturers may use the area to contain a preloaded OS for install and recovery purposes (instead of providing DVD or CD media). Dell notebooks hide Dell MediaDirect utility in HPA. IBM ThinkPad and LG notebooks hide system restore software in HPA. HPA is also used by various theft recovery and monitoring service vendors.
It can be used to create/remove Host Protected Area (HPA) (using command SET MAX) and create/remove DCO hidden area (using command DCO MODIFY). It also can do other functions on the DCO. Data Synergy's freeware ATATool utility can be used to detect a DCO from a Windows environment. Recent versions allow a DCO to be created, removed or frozen.
Disable Protected Mode in Internet Explorer. Protected mode is enable by default and may interfere with AOL Mail. If you're continuing to have trouble accessing mail, turn Protected Mode off: 1. Click Tools. 2. Click Internet Options. 3. Click the Security tab. 4. Deselect "Enable Protected Mode." 5. Restart Internet Explorer and sign in to AOL ...
Formerly, on disks formatted using the master boot record (MBR) partition layout, certain software components used hidden sectors of the disk for data storage purposes. For example, the Logical Disk Manager (LDM), on dynamic disks, stores metadata in a 1 MB area at the end of the disk which is not allocated to any partition.
1. In the Windows taskbar, next to the clock, right click the (M) icon, and then click Open SecurityCenter.2. In the McAfee window, click Fix.By doing this McAfee will identify the issue and try to fix it.
A sparse file: Empty bytes don't need to be saved, thus they can be represented by metadata. One petabyte (1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes) of sparse files, 0 bytes on disk. Sparse files are files interspersed with empty segments for which no actual storage space is used.
Learn how to download and install or uninstall the Desktop Gold software and if your computer meets the system requirements. AOL APP. ... • Windows 7 or newer
A portion of the computer main memory can be set up as a RAM disk that serves as a storage device for a file system. File systems such as tmpfs can store files in virtual memory . A virtual file system provides access to files that are either computed on request, called virtual files (see procfs and sysfs ), or are mapping into another, backing ...