I have just bought a few bits of hardware from a company that my firm uses that is closing down.
One of these is a Hitachi 250GB IDE hard disk.
I have completely reformatted it using the Windows XP system tool and it seems ok in that I can see both partitions of the drive using 'My Computer' and I am able to copy files to them.
However, when opening Partition Magic I got the following message:-
Disk 3 (238472MB 30401c 255h 63s) appears to have partitions created using a different drive geometry (240h 63s) This serious problem can lead to data loss.
No partition manipulations should be made to it using this product or the operating system's products. You should back up the data on this disk, delete all partitions under the new drive geometry and then restore your data using the backup.
When the program opens, it shows the disk as 'Bad'!
This has me completely lost as there is no data on the disk and I have tried using it both internally, using a removable hard drive rack, and externally with a USB hard disk enclosure.
When used internally, the BIOS detects it and doesn't come up with any error messages, although the size shown is only 137.4GB, which may be something to do with the limitations of the BIOS.
I have tried reformatting it again and the same thing happened and Partition Magic will not allow me to delete the existing partitions.
If anybody is able to give me some advice, or guidance, on this problem it would be very much appreciated.
One of these is a Hitachi 250GB IDE hard disk.
I have completely reformatted it using the Windows XP system tool and it seems ok in that I can see both partitions of the drive using 'My Computer' and I am able to copy files to them.
However, when opening Partition Magic I got the following message:-
Disk 3 (238472MB 30401c 255h 63s) appears to have partitions created using a different drive geometry (240h 63s) This serious problem can lead to data loss.
No partition manipulations should be made to it using this product or the operating system's products. You should back up the data on this disk, delete all partitions under the new drive geometry and then restore your data using the backup.
When the program opens, it shows the disk as 'Bad'!
This has me completely lost as there is no data on the disk and I have tried using it both internally, using a removable hard drive rack, and externally with a USB hard disk enclosure.
When used internally, the BIOS detects it and doesn't come up with any error messages, although the size shown is only 137.4GB, which may be something to do with the limitations of the BIOS.
I have tried reformatting it again and the same thing happened and Partition Magic will not allow me to delete the existing partitions.
If anybody is able to give me some advice, or guidance, on this problem it would be very much appreciated.
