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Personal Secure Disk

Discussion in 'Acer' started by freeway29, Sep 24, 2008.

freeway29 Notebook Enthusiast

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Want to know is there a way that you can put the PSD from acer empowering technology as i love the way it hides the whole drive,so is there a way you can put it on another pc that is not a acer one or is there another program just like it and if so what is it thanks.

freeway29, Sep 24, 2008

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kiriakost Notebook Deity

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There is no need to use any ACER software for that.

Hide a partition and boot it on demand.
One simple MBR boot loader will do the job.

Its not simple task , but its possible.

Explore the first link on my sign to understand the theory.

kiriakost, Sep 27, 2008

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regarding personal secure disk, i got also a problem of recovery. my acer aspire 5570 HDD crashed and cannot be reboot so i change with new HDD. I reinstalled the acer recovery system and it works like new. using 3rd party software data recovery, i am able to recover the data saved on my old hdd. my problem now is i can not open the data i recovered from my PSD(old secured disk) the file it shows is eDS_PSD_drive.vmdf. I tried to open it using edata security of acer using same password i used but it did not work. please help.. thanks in advance for your help.

arneldgr8, Mar 18, 2009

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