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Host Protected Areas

May 18, 2021

Note that many drives will contain a host protected area, which will not be displayed in the file explorer for an operating system. The MAX ADDRESS of a drive can be set so less than the full size of a drive is shown. The rest of the drive will be a host protected area, the OS cannot work with. But BIOS software may work with the host protected area. A host protected area may be required for some firmware because it cannot successfully boot from a large drive.

Host protected areas can also be used to hold system restore software.

The host protected area will not be altered when a drive is reformatted, so theft detection software may be loaded there.

Naturally, the host protected area is also a good place to hide data, including malware.

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