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Having difficulty encrypting an HP Elite 8200 w/ 5.60: "Invalid Slice" "No/ Boot Loader"

heyheyash

The poster in this thread had the same issue. This results in the machine becoming unbootable. I have used SGNRollback twice to remove the software. The MBR was cleaned and all other steps were followed.

How do I make use of the latest POA settings database file? I see that I can run the SGNHWInfo which dumps out the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Actions>

	<Action>
		<Version></Version>
		<Condition>
			<Machine Vendor="Hewlett-Packard" UseVendor="1" Model="HP Compaq 8200 Elite SFF PC" UseModel="1" Type="" UseType="0" />
			<BIOS Vendor="Hewlett-Packard" UseVendor="1" Version="HPQOEM - 1072009" UseVersion="0" />
			<HardDisk Model="ST3500413AS" UseModel="0" />
			<HD-Controller VID="8086" UseVID="1" PID="1C00" UsePID="1" />
			<USB-Controller VID="8086" UseVID="0" PID="1C2D" UsePID="0" />
			<GraphicController VID="8086" UseVID="0" PID="0102" UsePID="0" />
			<VideoControllerDriver Vendor="Intel Corporation" UseVendor="0" Version="6.14.10.5361" UseVersion="0" />
		</Condition>
		<Command></Command>
	</Action>

</Actions>

Can I somehow use this information to successfully install the encryption?

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    This soulds almost like a corrupt boot loader POA environment.  Would it be possible to try upgrading to 6.0, the issues I experienced with HP hardware in 5.6 were fixed in 6.0.

    Also after getting back into the system do a drive test just to be on the safe side.  I've had issues where one sector of the POA gets put on a bad block or cross-linked sector on the disk causing strange issues nobody had ever scene before and it turns out the drive was bad and should have failed SMART but didn't.  Remember that sector based encryption and especially POA are dependant on a correctly working drive, more so than other types of software.  If the drive is erroring out but reporting it did everything ok it'll do everything correctly.

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    This soulds almost like a corrupt boot loader POA environment.  Would it be possible to try upgrading to 6.0, the issues I experienced with HP hardware in 5.6 were fixed in 6.0.

    Also after getting back into the system do a drive test just to be on the safe side.  I've had issues where one sector of the POA gets put on a bad block or cross-linked sector on the disk causing strange issues nobody had ever scene before and it turns out the drive was bad and should have failed SMART but didn't.  Remember that sector based encryption and especially POA are dependant on a correctly working drive, more so than other types of software.  If the drive is erroring out but reporting it did everything ok it'll do everything correctly.

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