First post, by serialShinobi
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I would like to know more about Ontrack Disk Manager. I know there are several versions. I am interested in this program because I recently discovered that there was once a time in PC history when hard drives came bundled with OEM versions of Ontrack Disk Manager. If you moved a hard drive from one PC it would not boot in another PC. The BIOS vendors were proprietary and did not use the same disk addressing. There was no way to decipher the MBR or subsequent areas of stored operating system information. It was a time when every vendor wanted to profit in a market for computers anyone could affordably own and upgrade. Addressing in either CHS or LBA was done differently by each vendor with algorithms that should have been standardized. Does anybody remember OnTrack disk Manager being in the carton with a new hard drive? How did it solve the problems when people were putting in drives that used LBA and the BIOS vendor wanted you to use "their LBA"? It's like OnTrack Disk Manager must have been released at the dawn of drives that exceeded addressable capacities of CHS.
