From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 22 3: 2:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EEE614C1E for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 03:02:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Sat, 22 May 1999 06:02:24 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB44011058F7@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Michiel Meijers' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: fdisk <-> pqmagic Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 06:03:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It sounds to me like you want to enable LBA mode in your BIOS. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Michiel Meijers [SMTP:michiel@cs.vu.nl] > Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 5:36 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: fdisk <-> pqmagic > > Hello, > > Does someone know if fdisk (FreeBSD, not DOS) writes other partitioning > info > than PQMagic on the harddisk ? > Because when I wrote the partitioning table with PQMagic, fdisk couldn't > determine what the types where of my partitions (FAT32 and NTFS). So, I > wrote > the partitioning info with fdisk (ok, stupid) and now PQMagic doesn't > understand > my partitioning info. > Is there any chance that I can get my data back ? (Of course I didn't > backup.) > I mean to get the partitioning info right again ? > > This problem came because I had another problem. And this has to be fixed > anyway. I have a Maxtor 4320 8,4GB drive. The problem is that when I boot > my > computer says it has 1027 cylinders. That's more than MS-DOS can handle (I > want > to install NT 4.0 Workstation, but the MS-DOS Setup won't install it on a > harddisk >1024 cyls). The weirdest thing happened when I also installed > the > harddisk of my roommate: It's the same harddisk, the Maxtor 4320 8,4GB, > BUT > when > I ask the settings at booting time, the harddisk of my roommate tells my > it has > 1024 cyl ! How's this possible ? And can I also get my harddisk to tell > everyone > it has only 1024 cyl instead of 1027 ? > > I hope you can help me, because I've looked everywhere, but no one seems > to > know. > Please email me here: michiel@cs.vu.nl > > Many, many thanks, > > Michiel Meijers --- michiel@cs.vu.nl --- http://www.cs.vu.nl/~michiel/| > student AI '94 -- VU Amsterdam --------------------------------------| > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message