Re: On my ST-6330A, chkdsk says 545Mb but ...

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From: Peter Herweijer
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 00:00

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"Anthony R. Gold" <tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk> writes:

 > [...]  I had a CMOS loss (don't know why) and after I belived that I had 
 >restored everything chkdsk says 545,325,056 Bytes and scandisk starts 
 >checking all the 33,284 clusters but finds that everything after 32,278 
 >are bad.

My guess is that translation is disabled. You can verify this by using
MSD: if it sees a disk geometry with more than 1024 cylinders, this is
your problem. Enable translation (i.e., LBA or LARGE, whatever you had
before) in the CMOS setup.

 - Peter

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Date: 1995/06/30
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