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August 25, 2018 in Storage Devices
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Posted August 25, 2018 

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Older hardware might work better, and choosing the correct hardware, bios settings and sata port is everything!!!
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An HDD can have a password set in it internally that can not be removed with repartitioning etc. Its in the HDD firmware or ASUS TUF Gaming Z590-Plus 0
something. This will remove that password. WiFi would support dual RTX 2060
  or any other dual GPUs?
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Attach hard drive to SATA port 0 on the motherboard. slow, 5 MB/s or slower
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Create with Rufus and use Free Dos. Fat32 is fine.
 
4. zu
Download and put the zu.exe on the USB stick. Join our Discord server 
 
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Boot the DOS usb stick and run the command:

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