On Nov 10, 06 09:12:43 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote:
I was always under the impression the hardware itself held the region. You can buy drives with no region code set, but windows won't let you work that way, but Linux will. (Well, at least SuSE 9.3 did).
But if your drive has it s region set, your screwed. Try swapping the drive from your old machine in - or is this a laptop?
You can always dump the encrypted data from a drive that has no region code set yet (there are utilities on the web to reset a drive to that state). AFAIK it depends on the drive whether this is still possible if a region is set, and the disk has a different one than the driver. No, this is not an RPC-1 vs. RPC-2 issue.
This is a laptop, so was the old machine (which isn't that old, and I'm pretty sure it's drive was region coded as Windows wouldn't play my region 2 disks).
Windows has an additional region code layer, so you actually don't know
nothing in that case. Chances are high, though.
Matthias
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