Serious hard disk error

[jatti]

Hi All,

Thanks for reading my post.
I am not too sure if my question is right for this forum... please accept my apologies
I have been using Disk director since few weeks. I tried Partition Magic (PM 8 ) Yesterday as my friend it is better than DD (which i doubt now!!!). Whenever i have tried initializing PM 8 it always gives me this error
198160

I am using ACER aspire 5004 with Windows XP SP2 professional
Disk1 : 60gb hard disk
Disk 2 (in question i.e.one with error) : 250gb Seagate external USB hard disk

Can someone help me regarding this ...please ???
I would really appreciate that?

Thanks Again.

[Brian K]

jatti,

Could you download PartInfo from

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm

Unzip and open a command prompt to reference that folder. At the prompt type

partinfw > c:\partinfo.txt

and press ENTER.

Post partinfo.txt to this forum (attach the file)

[markymoo]

I wouldn't worry about it. PM comes up with this error even when there's nothing wrong. You have formatted your drive with another utility or altered your bios settings. If you try to fix it with PM it will probably corrupt your drive! so don't try to fix! The gemoetry is seeing it different in windows to the bios. Run chkdsk and leave alone. Don't try to fix it. If the partition is reporting the right size in Disk Director then its fine.

-{ Quote: "
PartitionMagic expects all FAT, HPFS and NTFS partitions to start and end on cylinder boundaries. Windows NT does not comply with this rule, and can create partitions starting on arbitrary sectors. There is no known operating system that requires this restriction. However, there exists software that tries to guess the disk geometry by looking at the CHS start and end values in a partition table." }-

[Aerowinder]

PartitionMagic has been dead for several years, unfortunately. PM only supports drives up to 127GB, I thought. That could be bad information. I would suggest finding a new partitioning tool - there are many to choose from. If chkdsk says the drive is fine, I wouldn't worry about it.

[jatti]

HI all,

THANK you guys for your reply... i really appreciate it ...
Please accept my aplogies for my late response ... had little ISP related issues....

-{ Quote: "
You have formatted your drive with another utility or altered your bios settings. If you try to fix it with PM it will probably corrupt your drive! so don't try to fix! The gemoetry is seeing it different in windows to the bios. Run chkdsk and leave alone. Don't try to fix it. If the partition is reporting the right size in Disk Director then its fine." }-

I ran chkdsk , NO errors;D ... anyhow i had formated my drive with Disk director only so no point keeping PM in my laptop...

-{ Quote: "..... I would suggest finding a new partitioning tool - there are many to choose from...." }-

Aerowinder can you suggest some good partition tool may be better than DD 10

Thanks to all for your replies
Cheers!!!!:) :)

[Aerowinder]

I use Paragon Partition Manager. It is only necessary to use a boot cd with these types of apps. I do not recommend installing them on the HD, as there is simply no reason to do so.

[Huupi]

-{ Quote: "I use Paragon Partition Manager. It is only necessary to use a boot cd with these types of apps. I do not recommend installing them on the HD, as there is simply no reason to do so." }-

For some reason the installed DD 10 is pretty much lame[look over at their forum],but from CD and then the option Safe Boot work like a charm.

[jatti]

thanks Aerowinder -{ Quote: "I use Paragon Partition Manager. It is only necessary to use a boot cd with these types of apps. I do not recommend installing them on the HD, as there is simply no reason to do so." }-

will give paragon a try....
As always thanks to all for their support;D