Large Hard Drive support
These days you might want to remove the Dynamic Drive Overlay. This maybe becuase you have upgraded to a newer system that supports the full capacity of your hard disk or you have upgraded your current system's BIOS to support the full capacity of the hard disk.
Also, Operating system these days bypass the BIOS limitation, (examples Windows Vista, Windows XP with Service Pack 2, or Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4).
The simplest method of removing the DDO from a hard drive is to use SeaTools to DOS to completely zero-fill the drive. This will erase everything on the drive, including the master boot record and the dynamic drive overlay.
Since Seagate Seatools boots to its own operating system you can use it regardless of the OS installed on it!
When removing the Dynamic Drive Overlay, it is important that you only have the hard drive(s) with a DDO installed connected to the system. You might want to try setting the BIOS parameters (example: Primary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master, or Secondary Slave) to where the drive is connected from Auto-Detect to None or Not-Installed. Save the settings and exit. Power off the computer. This step will tell the BIOS that there is no device or drive attached to the port.
If you are not sure or dont want to take chances, you can remove the power cord of the other hard drive.
Also, Operating system these days bypass the BIOS limitation, (examples Windows Vista, Windows XP with Service Pack 2, or Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4).
The simplest method of removing the DDO from a hard drive is to use SeaTools to DOS to completely zero-fill the drive. This will erase everything on the drive, including the master boot record and the dynamic drive overlay.
Since Seagate Seatools boots to its own operating system you can use it regardless of the OS installed on it!
When removing the Dynamic Drive Overlay, it is important that you only have the hard drive(s) with a DDO installed connected to the system. You might want to try setting the BIOS parameters (example: Primary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master, or Secondary Slave) to where the drive is connected from Auto-Detect to None or Not-Installed. Save the settings and exit. Power off the computer. This step will tell the BIOS that there is no device or drive attached to the port.
If you are not sure or dont want to take chances, you can remove the power cord of the other hard drive.
posted by Surinder Rinku at
6:31 AM
