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    HP Pavilion dv6700t Legacy sata mode

    Discussion in 'HP' started by jjthenovice, Mar 9, 2010.

  1. jjthenovice

    jjthenovice Notebook Geek

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    I have a HP Pavilion dv6700t and I'm looking in the bios to set the the sata controller to legacy mode so I can secure erase my SSD. Trouble is there's nothing there to do it. Question is, does anyone know how to set the controller to legacy mode?
     
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    walterdt3 Notebook Consultant

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    You can't. Definitely not in the bios. That series of laptops did not support legacy sata mode. You can search the forums and find alot of discussion (and complaints) about this.
     
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    You *might* be able to do it by following steps here, using line:

    Code: 
    :: Register 90: 0x00=IDE, 0x40=AHCI, 0x80=RAID. Set it to AHCI + non-combined. 
setpci -s 0:1f.2 90.b=00
    If your secure erase does INT13 bios calls then it depends on your bios to then be able to talk to the SATA controller which would now be running in IDE (legacy) mode.
     
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