geometry errors

[fair64]

Ok, I have a 27 gig harddrive and partion magic is telling me I have geometry errors, the place holders for cylinders,heads, and sectors are being reported wrong. Checked the Bios and the info there is correct or at least seems to be. I can't run scan disk, disk minder or any such app.. I have wiped the drive clean and repartioned, nothing seems to work. Help....
Any Ideas on were to go from here.
Andy

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"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." --Albert Einstein

[RGK01]

Your bios needs an update. Right now it apparently can detect the settings but it doesn't have the (math-geometry) to access a drive that large.

Check your motherboard manufacturer for a flash update.

SECOND THOUGHT: Check your partition magic program, it might not be able to handle a drive that large.

[This message has been edited by RGK01 (edited February 29, 2000).]

[Paul Cunningham]

I had this problem with partition magic 5 on a 13.5GB , so I low level formatted the drive and started again.

Made absolutely no difference http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/eek.gif

The drive works fine, must be a Partition magic glitch

[shanff]

I also have a 27GB drive and Partition Magic 5...the only errors I have are when I install System Commander 4, it tells me that there are cylinder mismatches and or overlapping going on, but when i run fdisk, partition magic, or fdisk in linux (triple boot operating systems), partitions are in perfect shape. oh well, no big thing i guess...as long as linux shows its all good that is.