HPA and DCO

The feature for Host Protected Area (HPA) / Device Configuration Overlay (DCO)
offers the full set of functions needed to change the maximum addressable LBA.

Atola Bandura supports setting or resetting both HPA and DCO.

Restore DCO

Restores all factory settings of a hard drive. Also clears Max LBA address restriction.

Restore HPA

Removes HPA restriction if enabled. After execution, hard drive's ID sector will contain
the native (factory) max address.

Set HPA address

Sets custom HPA restriction. After execution, the hard drive will report the new (reduced)
capacity according to the number of sectors you specify.

 

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