              Hard Angel v1.03. Evaluation version.


Copyright 1987-2004 by AHI-2

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Last updated:   03.12.2004



Overview.

You remember CIH? The virus has injured  500000  computers  and
many computers have been destroyed as a result  of  erasing  of
the Flash-BIOS.  Now owners of motherboards lock  it  but  this
problem is actual for hard disks still. Hard Angel it is jumper
for your hard drive.

Protect your hard drive with a Hard Angel!

The Hard Angel:
- provides the  hardware  protection  of  your  drive  for  the
  prohibition of unauthorized access;
- allows to lock attacks of viruses which  use  this  mechanism
  for destruction of the information;
- allows to warn the user about the risk  of  a  data  loss  if
  drive starts to fail;
- provides reliable storage of the passwords and possibility of
  their restoring;
- allows to bypass limitations of the BIOS of capacity of  your
  drive;
- works under any OS.

Ideas and algorithms are checked out in the gangsters world  of
Russia and by speculators of inside in America.

Requirements.

Hard Angel will function if having:
- accept the terms of end user license
- AT compatible computer or better
- IDE(ATA-3) hard drive with Host  Protected  Area,  S.M.A.R.T.
  and Security features
- Flash BIOS
- CPU 80386 or better
- DOS boot-floppy or DOS boot-cdrom

After reprogramming BIOS this tool does not demand  booting  by
floppy or cdrom and your hard drive can work under any OS.

Installation.

You have to create boot-floppy and to copy packet Hard Angel to
this diskette.  You can use image of diskette for  creation  of
the boot-cdrom.  Boot floppy is not necessary if you use  Win9x
and will not set password to your drive. You can run Hard Angel
in autoexec.bat in this case.

With a boot-floppy you can enable or disable security  of  your
drive but drive will not be accessible if security was  enabled
and reboot of the system has been made.

Therefore you have to create  Bios  extension  module  by  Hard
Angel and add it to BIOS  of  your  motherboard.  Reprogramming
BIOS should be made by utilities of the manufacturer  of  yours
motherboard.  After that you can customize by  Hard  Angel  the
Boot Block of your drive which will fix this problem.

Uninstall.

You should execute Flash with original BIOS's  image  or  clear
Boot Block on your drive by Hard Angel Pro.

What would you like to see in this software?

Any suggestions, comments or bug report are welcomed.  We  need
your help to make software better.

This software requires qualitative interpreting of the  english
documentation and translation for  other  languages.  We  offer
free-of-charge registration  of  Hard  Angel  Pro  package  for
persons which can translate documentation  or help  to  correct
english texts. Please e-mail to us in this case.

Evaluation version's limits.

With Hard Angel  you can not execute recovery of the passwords.
This function are supported by package Hard Angel Pro.

Distributors and manufacturers  of motherboards and hard drives
should  not distribute  freeware's components  of this  package
without the permission of AHI-2.
