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Ian Lowery <ianl@nospam.curie.dialix.com.au> wrote:

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>Anybody got any clues as to what happened? 

I'd say, you probably ran into a side effect of using the "Auto" detect
feature(s) of your BIOS. If the partition table gets corrupted, it can cause
the BIOS to decide to use a different type drive translation, other than
LBA. This can then lead to BIOS not being able to access certain sectors,
and perhaps trigger a bug somewhere.

I'd doubt that the drives' sector relocation played as huge a role as might
be suggested by your description, but it may well have with the MBR and/or
parts of the primary partition.

Download the Quantum Data Protection System utility (QDPSATA.EXE) from
Quantum, and see what it has to say about the drive. Run it with the /L
switch (the bloody license is ~ 5 pages long). eg QDPSATA /L

If you tell it to "Print the results", it will create a file called
TEMP.TXT.

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