Re: Problem with WD Lifeguard Tools


"news.telenet.be" <Not@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > "Set the drive active for booting" -
> > > I think YES as I'm restoring the OS partition
> > Yes.
> >
> > > "Restore original disk signature" - Not sure?
> > Yes.
> >
> > > "Restore MBR" - Not sure?
> > Yes.
>
> Thanks Rod I'll give it a go.
>

Oh bother. I think I might have a 48 bit LBA problem. What would the
symptoms be?

The restore went ok but I can't seem to get it to boot. I get this
message... "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware
configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check
boot path and disk hardware..."

The IDE drive is in the boot path ok and PQRE reports that the drive is
NTFS, Primary, bootable and visible but the parameter "Home" is set to No
whatever that means?

The new drive is a 160G the old one was 120G. During boot up the BIOS
reports

Primary Master
Cyl = 65535
Head = 16
Sector size = 255
Size = 160 GB
LBA Mode = LBA
32 bit mode = on
Block Mode = 16Sec
PIO mode = 4
UDMA Mode = 5

I can explore the drive using PQRE and all the files and folders seem to be
on there (eg the root looks OK) but perhaps that's not the case? I've run
the check disk utility supplied with PQRE and it finds no errors after the
install.

If it's not a 48bit LBA problem I'm running out of ideas what to do next.
Should try wiping the HD, installing XP and then running PQRE from Windows?













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