Compaq Geometry

[Marco]

Greetings,
I have a portable hardrive that was configured and setup
on a Compaq. I now have to install it on my machine at
home. No problem, I thought. A warning popped up when I
opened Partition Magic 7.0, about the drives geometry
being changed and that I need to reformat. So I tryed to
reformat and it gives me an error. Does anyone know whats
going on or how to fix this?
Thanks in Advance
Marco

[Jim Macklin]

You didn't reset it to slave and you can't have two master
drives on one IDE cable.


"Marco" > wrote in message
...
| Greetings,
| I have a portable hardrive that was configured and setup
| on a Compaq. I now have to install it on my machine at
| home. No problem, I thought. A warning popped up when I
| opened Partition Magic 7.0, about the drives geometry
| being changed and that I need to reformat. So I tryed to
| reformat and it gives me an error. Does anyone know whats
| going on or how to fix this?
| Thanks in Advance
| Marco

[Joep]

Different PCs may use different algorithms to 'translate' a drive.

Assume original PC shows this for disk geometry:
xxxx cylinders - 240 heads - 63 sectors

Partitions created in the above machine will typically start at:
'cylinder value' - 1 - 1 and end at 'cylinder value' - 239 - 63.

And the other one:
yyyy cylinders - 255 heads - 63 sectors

This is what PartitionMagic means, 2 PCs use a different algo to translate
the disk. Running the diagnostic partinfo tool that comes with PM can reveal
this. The disk geometry for disk in current PC is displayed. There's no work
arounds unless you can get the BIOS for the second PC to see the disk with
240 heads (in above example).

--
Joep

http://www.diydatarecovery.nl




"Marco" > wrote in message
...
> Greetings,
> I have a portable hardrive that was configured and setup
> on a Compaq. I now have to install it on my machine at
> home. No problem, I thought. A warning popped up when I
> opened Partition Magic 7.0, about the drives geometry
> being changed and that I need to reformat. So I tryed to
> reformat and it gives me an error. Does anyone know whats
> going on or how to fix this?
> Thanks in Advance
> Marco

[Joep]

> You didn't reset it to slave and you can't have two master
> drives on one IDE cable.

It has got nothing to do with that.

Joep

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"Jim Macklin" > wrote in message
...
> You didn't reset it to slave and you can't have two master
> drives on one IDE cable.
>
>
> "Marco" > wrote in message
> ...
> | Greetings,
> | I have a portable hardrive that was configured and setup
> | on a Compaq. I now have to install it on my machine at
> | home. No problem, I thought. A warning popped up when I
> | opened Partition Magic 7.0, about the drives geometry
> | being changed and that I need to reformat. So I tryed to
> | reformat and it gives me an error. Does anyone know whats
> | going on or how to fix this?
> | Thanks in Advance
> | Marco
>
>

[Peter]

Hi,

Partition Magic 7 not work on XP, use PM 8.

Peter

>-----Original Message-----
>Different PCs may use different algorithms to 'translate'
a drive.
>
>Assume original PC shows this for disk geometry:
>xxxx cylinders - 240 heads - 63 sectors
>
>Partitions created in the above machine will typically
start at:
>'cylinder value' - 1 - 1 and end at 'cylinder value' -
239 - 63.
>
>And the other one:
>yyyy cylinders - 255 heads - 63 sectors
>
>This is what PartitionMagic means, 2 PCs use a different
algo to translate
>the disk. Running the diagnostic partinfo tool that comes
with PM can reveal
>this. The disk geometry for disk in current PC is
displayed. There's no work
>arounds unless you can get the BIOS for the second PC to
see the disk with
>240 heads (in above example).
>
>--
>Joep
>
>http://www.diydatarecovery.nl
>
>
>
>
>"Marco" > wrote in message
...
>> Greetings,
>> I have a portable hardrive that was configured and setup
>> on a Compaq. I now have to install it on my machine at
>> home. No problem, I thought. A warning popped up when I
>> opened Partition Magic 7.0, about the drives geometry
>> being changed and that I need to reformat. So I tryed to
>> reformat and it gives me an error. Does anyone know
whats
>> going on or how to fix this?
>> Thanks in Advance
>> Marco
>
>
>.
>

[Jef Norton]

Hi Peter -

Partition Magic 7 does, in fact, work under Windows XP. There were a number
of bugs which could result in disastrous consequences in the original PM 7.0
release. PowerQuest did address these issues and released version 7.01
which functions fine under XP. There are a number of differences between
versions 7 and 8, primarily being the largest size partition that can be
managed being much larger in version 8.

If the original poster is using version 7.0, I'd suggest picking up the free
update to version 7.01, available at http://www.powerquest.com .

Jef


"Peter" > wrote in message
...
| Hi,
|
| Partition Magic 7 not work on XP, use PM 8.
|
| Peter
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Different PCs may use different algorithms to 'translate'
| a drive.
| >
| >Assume original PC shows this for disk geometry:
| >xxxx cylinders - 240 heads - 63 sectors
| >
| >Partitions created in the above machine will typically
| start at:
| >'cylinder value' - 1 - 1 and end at 'cylinder value' -
| 239 - 63.
| >
| >And the other one:
| >yyyy cylinders - 255 heads - 63 sectors
| >
| >This is what PartitionMagic means, 2 PCs use a different
| algo to translate
| >the disk. Running the diagnostic partinfo tool that comes
| with PM can reveal
| >this. The disk geometry for disk in current PC is
| displayed. There's no work
| >arounds unless you can get the BIOS for the second PC to
| see the disk with
| >240 heads (in above example).
| >
| >--
| >Joep
| >
| >http://www.diydatarecovery.nl
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >"Marco" > wrote in message
| ...
| >> Greetings,
| >> I have a portable hardrive that was configured and setup
| >> on a Compaq. I now have to install it on my machine at
| >> home. No problem, I thought. A warning popped up when I
| >> opened Partition Magic 7.0, about the drives geometry
| >> being changed and that I need to reformat. So I tryed to
| >> reformat and it gives me an error. Does anyone know
| whats
| >> going on or how to fix this?
| >> Thanks in Advance
| >> Marco
| >
| >
| >.
| >