George Hester wrote:
> Ok got it the report is very big. But what I will do is just post the parts
> that have to do with the drive in question:
>
> --------[ EVEREST Home Edition (c) 2003-2005 Lavalys,
[big snip of report]
> --------[ Debug - Video
> BIOS ]----------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------------
>
> C000:0000 U.@..7400............S....f.m.IBM VGA Compatible BIOS.
> ..f..a...
> C000:0040 ....STB PowerGraph 64 Video (TRIO64V+) Enhanced VGA BIOS.
> Versio
> C000:0080 n 1.5..Copyright 1987-1992 Phoenix Technologies
> Ltd.............

This looks like a very old BIOS. Is it? What date do you see on boot-up?

What size are the disks in question? What size are the partitions?
Looks like the WD is 60GB and the Maxtor 320GB.

A BIOS that old must be LBA28. I'm wondering if the problem came from
overwriting one of the partitions. This can happen if you attempt to
use a drive >137GB, (128GiB), on an old LBA28 BIOS, by making smaller
partitions.
>
> What do you think man? Doesn't look like anything????
>
> Now the application that VWWall provided from up top, TestDisk said the
> partition could not be recovered. Then said it may be recovered if I change
> the geometry of the drive. I am a little hesitant to do that for how could
> the Geometry change from whatever it was to wrong? It may always have been
> wrong and worked fine.
> It wants to reduce the number of cylinders.

I haven't used TestDisk in awhile. I've heard only good reports about
it. What kind of data is on the drive in question? You may be forced
to re-format after saving as much as you can get off.

Generally, when a drive starts to go bad it doesn't get better by
itself. If it's a file/partition problem the drive may be OK, but the
data's in danger.

Let us know if you do have a 320GB drive and the BIOS is an older one.
(Before about 2002, when LBA48 became common.)
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Virg Wall