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NoahD
Joined: 25 May 2008
| | | I'm going through the Dell laptop hard drive upgrade circus and part of the solution involves using your Sector Editor to zero out sector 3. Unfortunately, when I start your program, the Select Disk dropdown is blank, preventing me from selecting the hard drive. This remains the cse regardless of reboot. I'm on a Dell E1705 with Windows Vista. Any help would be hugely appreciated. |
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Roadkil
Joined: 28 Mar 2008
South Australia | | Sorry for the very late reply!
I believe this problem is due to not having admin rights on your machine.. are you logged in as an administrative user?? Do you get any popups like "this program requires administrator access" ?? |
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gifford.scott
Joined: 30 Sep 2008
usa | | Roadkil,
First off, thanks very much for making all these tools available for free - it's really impressive how much damage you can do with these tools! I'm trying to get a follow-up to NoahD's question about using sector editor under Vista. I'm seeing the exact same problem as NoahD (including owning a Dell MediaDirect laptop from hell), and I *am* the admin user on this machine. Are there other permissions that I have to set as admin user to allow sector editor to access the hard drive?
regards,
gifford scott |
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gifford.scott
Joined: 30 Sep 2008
usa | | | OK... I'll answer my own question: By default, Vista appears to disable user modifications to the disk, including relatively benign operations like adding new directories. To use sector edit, you must go to the Control Panel and disable 'User Account Control' for the administrator user. After disabling user account control, available disks will appear in the 'Select Disk' drop-down. |
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Roadkil
Joined: 28 Mar 2008
South Australia | | Thanks for that answer! thats probably why ive never seent his problem in my testing as this is the first thing i disabled when installing vista... its SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO annoying!
Cheers! |
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jrregan
Joined: 24 Mar 2010
| | | bump the Dell Media dis-functionality. As an fyi I got here from Apricorn support. I'll forward this issue to them so HOPEFULLY they will either delete the reference or ensure the peeps follow the other long ugly path to purge the hidden media parition. -- So I just read the REST of the postings and will try under dell 9400 single on board drive w/ xp. No answer, it worked, else i'll repost. Head off the apricorn support guy (he's cool). thanks much, Joseph |
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jrregan
Joined: 24 Mar 2010
| | | de-bump Well XP isn't UAC aware. So my attempt was de-railed. |
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