Hard disk geometry error

[wpenhall]

Hello,

Upon bootup today, I heard a very loud, high-pitched whine that sounded like it was coming from one of my two hard drives. I have a Western Digital 120 GB SE (NTFS - paritioned) and a Maxtor 60 GB drive (Fat 32 - unpartioned) connected to my Athelon / Win 2k system. Windows did a scandisk check during the boot process (unusual), reported 4k in bad sectors for the 60 gig drive (first time a utility has told me I have bad sectors on that drive), then continued to boot normally.

For the 60 gig drive, Partition Magic Partinfo reports: "Error #108: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
ucEndHead expected to be 254, not 239." This drive has been working fine for a month now and I don't believe that I have changed any systems settings recently that would affect this.

Windows still reads and writes to/from this drive just fine. What should I do to resolve this error? I may want to partition this drive before long. Would reformatting it help? Is this an indication that the drive will soon go bad?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

 

[wpenhall]

Update: I was told that this is a translation error. I was specifically instructed to: "redetect it in the BIOS with a 255 head translation." How, exactly do I go about doing that?

I need to clarify something - I have this drive connected to a RAID channel on my Epox 8k5a3+ with the highpoint controller installed. It's not in an array - it's essentially JABOD with one drive. As such, I can't find it in the CMOS to try to change the cylinder head value. Does anyone have any suggestions?


Thanks!