I bought a 20GB IDE hard drive and in the bios the primary master is set to auto and at the post it would take a long time to detect it so I used HDAT2 from Hirens boot cd and deleted the HPA and now it finds it very fast can someone tell me why this would work. I then did a check for bad clusters and it came up with none so
im glad there but when I ran the "most powerful test" I get a bunch of errors within the first 13MB I quit this test because it kept beeping a lot, the errors are "memory buffers are different" is this something to be wary of and is there a way to fix this if its bad news for the hard drive. In the first picture below there is "!EDD: NOT_SUPPORTED" I have not seen this before is this what is causing the errors? Lastly the SMART is at Warning and I looked at the smart logs but I could not make heads or tales of it as I dont know enough about this should I throw this hard drive away or should it be safe to use it?