Greetings all,
My dad is having kindof an odd problem on his computer. He had an old 300mHz emachines with the stock 4 gig hard drive that he wanted to upgrade to a new 60 GB drive(thanks santa). The old 4 gig drive had both win98 and linux partitions and it could boot to either. We wanted the 60 GB drive to be our primary drive so we made it the master and the old drive the slave on the ide cable. We were able to get windows 98 installed on the new drive without much trouble but now when we try to open partition magic to check out the old drive we get this error message:
"Disk 2 (3051MB 775c 128h 63s) appears to have partitions created using a different drvie geometry (255h 63s). This serious problem can lead to data loss. No partition manipulations should be made to this disk using this product or operating system's products. You should back up the data on this dis, delete all partitions, create new partitions under the new drive geometry, and then restore your data using the backup"
I'm not really sure what happened here. Is this a problem with the hard drive, the bios, the mobo, or the os? I don't really know what could have happened to give it a different drive geometry. We just want to get the stuff off the old drive before we reformat it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot. -y
My dad is having kindof an odd problem on his computer. He had an old 300mHz emachines with the stock 4 gig hard drive that he wanted to upgrade to a new 60 GB drive(thanks santa). The old 4 gig drive had both win98 and linux partitions and it could boot to either. We wanted the 60 GB drive to be our primary drive so we made it the master and the old drive the slave on the ide cable. We were able to get windows 98 installed on the new drive without much trouble but now when we try to open partition magic to check out the old drive we get this error message:
"Disk 2 (3051MB 775c 128h 63s) appears to have partitions created using a different drvie geometry (255h 63s). This serious problem can lead to data loss. No partition manipulations should be made to this disk using this product or operating system's products. You should back up the data on this dis, delete all partitions, create new partitions under the new drive geometry, and then restore your data using the backup"
I'm not really sure what happened here. Is this a problem with the hard drive, the bios, the mobo, or the os? I don't really know what could have happened to give it a different drive geometry. We just want to get the stuff off the old drive before we reformat it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot. -y
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