BPB HD Num

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nemesis
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BPB HD Num

Post by nemesis »

Hi,

I get the message "Correct BPB HDNum" when I open the partition work window.

The reason I suspect i get this is that when I add a USB disk to the system that stick receives HDNum 0. Which screws up many things.

I assume this is something the BIOS does. Is there a way to work around this dreadfull behavior?

Regards,

Davy
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Re: BPB HD Num

Post by TeraByte Support »

you get it when you view properties of a partition, it only matters if it's a bootable partition and if it's not booing, if it's not a bootable partition and working don't fix it, if it doesn't boot, you can fix it, as if it's not a bootable partition it doesn't matter if you fix it or not.
nemesis
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Re: BPB HD Num

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It is a bootable partition, it does work though. The partition giving the error is the efi partition which houses BootIT and the error occurs in bootit.
nemesis
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Re: BPB HD Num

Post by nemesis »

The other question is a USB stick being added as disk 0. Which breaks the BootIT menu. Is this something We can resolve?

For instance by having bootit use the guid instead of the bioshdnum.
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Re: BPB HD Num

Post by TeraByte Support »

it won't matter on UEFI if you fix it. It's only legacy type OS boot partitions that it could affect.

Is the UFD with BootIt or just when attached. I think the setting you're looking for is to enable "Use Boot Item Disk IDs".
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