Automatic adjustment of host protected area by BIOS

摘要

A method that adjusts the host protected area of a hard disk drive automatically using BIOS during power on self test (POST) by adjusting the start address of the host protected area of the hard disk drive and all service entries in the directory of services. Host protected area physical disk addresses are automatically adjusted by the BIOS when the hard disk drive has a different location from the host protected area used to create the source image of the data placed in the host protected area of the hard disk drive.