HDAT2 not detecting HDD

[GKandRiven]

Im using a laptop with an SSD and 1TB HDD and im trying to use HDAT2 from Hirens Boot CD but it does not detect and HDD's, in the Bios I have "Legacy" enabled instead of UEFI or UEFI with CSM as anything other than Legacy will not boot the CD, I have AHCI for Sata Mode, when I run Hirens boot cd and try to run HDAT2 I get this message "Warning: the high memory area (HMA) is not available. Additional low memory (below 640k) will be used instead. Creating 64Mb Ram drive as R:" but it just pauses for a while then says "bad command or file name, Syntax error" so I reboot and go to "dos - dos settings" and use option 2 "dos (with HimemX, try this if ram drive fails)" I now can run HDAT2 but it does not detect and of my hard drives, if I use the "P Params" option in HDAT2 and change Device Access to "Ext. INT13h" and change "Decimal or binary size" from 1000 to 1024 it still cant detect my HDD's. the laptop is a MSI GP62 6QF Leopard Pro and I cant remove the HDD's to test on another system as it will void my warranty because it was made that you have to remove the whole bottom cover to get to the HDD's not like a standard laptop.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Why were you using Hirens Boot CD? What were you trying to accomplish? Have you visited the Hirens forum?

http://www.hirensbootcd.org/

 

[GKandRiven]

I was trying to use HDAT2 to check if the HDD had a HPA or not, HDAT2 wasnt detecting my HDD's because in the bios the only Storage options were "AHCI" and "RAID" and HDAT2 needs IDE or SATA, I updated my laptops bios but the update didnt include anything other than when it had so I cant use HDAT2.

 

[Alabalcho]

If your laptop does not support that create, move your HDD to a system which does.

 

[GKandRiven]

unfortunatly I cant as it would void the warranty but someone told me in windows 10 in disk manager it would tell you if there was a HPA on a partition is this true?

 

[Alabalcho]

There are many other tools to detect presence of Host Protected Area (HPA). I am sure youvhave checked here...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_protected_area

But then - what you would do with this knowledge?