Hi, I have a maxtor 6Y160P0 which is a 160 gig drive. However, I got the drive form a friend who had used it in his tivo. Upon inpsection of the drive, whatever software he used with the tivo, it changed the number of cylinders the drive thinks it has. I have tried using all of the manufaturers utilities to no avail. Also I used the Knoppix Live CD so I could use the tool "cfdisk" however that tool is unable to properly access the drive and returns a fault. Does anyone know of any other tools or anything at all that can change the Disk Geometry?? Thank you for your help.

"it changed the number of cylinders the drive thinks it has" HUH? You simply install the HDD & the BIOS detects it. However, if these are your specs, "900mhz / 256M Dell", it indicates that you have a somewhat older system...a 160GB HDD might not be properly recognized because of an out of date BIOS. A BIOS update might correct it...IF there's one available. Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @8x210mhz 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB

OS: Doesnt matter,......it does too. If you 48-bit LBA-incompatible BIOS (you probably do) and there is no BIOS update to fix it, my advice is to get a controller card that supports 48bit LBA. If you also have XP, you need @ least SP1. -- Always do what you are afraid to do --

.....sic....If you have a 48-bit LBA-incompatible BIOS (you probably do)...... -- Always do what you are afraid to do --

hi Brendan, i'm not quite sure what problem you're having with the drive. you may have to partition it into smaller parts to access the whole thing.

I don't know what 'tivo' is but it seems the tivo guy may have managed to low level format the HD. I which case you probably have a 160GB doorstop. M2

get ezdrive i think from maxtor, it's a disk manager disk that tricks the computer bios to let you access full drive david