Drive Geometry Incorrect, Can not correct
Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 00:47
I've been working on a Western Digital PATA 80GB hard drive that suddenly failed to boot. I've run TESTDISK 6.11 on UBUNTU many times on the drive. The first time I ran TESTDISK, it reported that the drive geometry was incorrect - 255, 63, 512 and that it should be CHS 10338 240 63 512. I used the Geometry utility and reset the heads to 240 from 255 and then the drive reports correct partitions. When I go to Write after running a Deep Search, it instructs me to Shutdown, which I do by cleanly existing TESTDISK, then Shutdown of UBUNTU. When I restart TESTDISK and check the geometry of the drive, it reports the heads as 255 again. I have done this process repeated, but with the same results. It appears that I can not rewrite or over write the heads setting and that there is something wrong with the drive and TESTDISK can no longer help, am I correct?
Also, there are sections of the file system missing, whole directories gone and can not be seen or found via Deep Search.
Please confirm that most likely the LLF on the drive is the problem?
If you would like the latest TESTDISK Log file I can provide.
Thank you,
Tom
Also, there are sections of the file system missing, whole directories gone and can not be seen or found via Deep Search.
Please confirm that most likely the LLF on the drive is the problem?
If you would like the latest TESTDISK Log file I can provide.
Thank you,
Tom