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Originally Posted by markshmid1";p="
I was thinking maybe the reason I am having trouble, Juicing up my gizmo again is because I have (found) two drives. The updater is looking @ the one Meg drive which is the real one but it cannot but the info in there because it is too small.
A good 15 or more years back (when hard drives where really expensive and all we had was a 20GB there was this program called STACKER which doubled your hard drive space.
I do not recall exactly how it worked – but I do remember that: 1) it made a seconded drive read only 2) it slowed the heck out of the computer 3) you would have to defrag all the time, or else you where in risk of crashing or it would work even slower
So my guess this is what they are doing and somehow hiding the second drive (which popped up by me).
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This is what I've had written about earlier. The old HD proggies would hide the real cylinder values and would let you to write to the factory reserved sectors of the drive what is reserved for recovery only in case you have a bad sector.This way constantly moves data back and forth but would crash soon as it reaches the logical limit of the given platter.
Similar trick here.Reserve about 1M of protected space and use a spoof to map out the rest of the memoryblocks.
Windows is a stupid operating system it's easy to fool.
It's still operating on the arcane x86 pc architecture what supposed to be dead and buried since the late seventies.
This is just shows the inadequacies of men.
Human nature never likes things to change but it must.
Because of this stupid safezone what ppl need usually, is the very couse of suffering we must endure.
Not just technical but social in nature.
anyhow...I'm off subject already..lol