I have no idea what the 'harddiskvolume 2' was all about...but if it was inside this laptop then it will be something to do with 'battery operation'...MCDONALD used to put a microchip in there...but as I do not use a battery with this laptop - I run it off the mains in order to 'save the battery' as the ARMY instructed me to do...MCDONALD's program upon the hardware of this laptop, will have been unable to activate anything....