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Disk Geometric Error after installing Mandrake 7.2

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Name: ian
Date: February 6, 2001 at 15:17:00 Pacific
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Hi,
PartitionMagic6 won't start after I use DiskDrake that come with Mandrake 7.2 to partition the drive, and when i run PartitionInfo it said i have Disk Geometry Error.

I have a 12GB harddrive and i partition them into two parts.
At first, I use Partition Magic 6 to create a 2GB FAT32 logical partition after my C drive and before my D drive.

After this, i run Mandrake 7.2, and it uses the DiskDrake to remove the FAT32 partition i just created and make it into 2 linux ext and 1 linux swap. after that i installed mandrake 7.2 smoothly.

But after that i returned to windows and i run Partition Magic 6 to see how my harddrives looks like. Partition Magic give me the following popup:


" PartitionMagic has found an extended partition on disk 1 that crosses the 1024 cylinder boundary and is not marked as an ExtendedX partition. This condition can casuse data corruption on this disk. After fixing this problem, Partition magic must reboot your system to reinitialize the file system drivers. Would you like PartitionMagic to change the Extended partition to an ExtendedX partition? "


After I clicked Yes, it said partition table error was successfully fixed! And then follows by an error message:


INit failed: Error 183
Unable to identify the Windows Partition

then everytime i run PartitionMagic it give me the same error messages

And also when i run PartitionInfo
it said i have Disk Geometry Error
In the following table it gives me 5 Errors

===========================================================================================================
Disk Geometry Information for Disk 1: 1550 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track
System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect StartSect NumSects
===========================================================================================================
WINDOWS ME 0 0 80 0 1 1 0B 455 254 63 63 7,325,577
0 1 00 456 0 1 0F 1023 254 63 7,325,640 17,575,110
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 1 00 456 0 1 0F 1549 254 63 7325640 17575110
7,325,640 0 00 456 1 1 83 625 254 63 7,325,703 2,730,987
7,325,640 1 00 775 0 1 05 1023 254 63 12,450,375 12,450,375
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
7325640 1 00 775 0 1 05 1549 254 63 12450375 12450375
GAMES MEDIA 12,450,375 0 00 775 1 1 0B 1023 254 63 12,450,438 12,450,312
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
12450375 0 00 775 1 1 0B 1549 254 63 12450438 12450312
12,450,375 1 00 626 0 1 05 656 254 63 10,056,690 498,015
Error #120: Logical Drive chain extends toward start of drive.
SWAPSPACE2 10,056,690 0 00 626 1 1 82 656 254 63 10,056,753 497,952
10,056,690 1 00 657 0 1 05 774 254 63 10,554,705 1,895,670
10,554,705 0 00 657 1 1 83 774 254 63 10,554,768 1,895,607

Could anyone tell me how to solve this?

Thanks for reading this.



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