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Cylinder size

Posted: 27 Feb 2014, 09:09
by UserRed
Hi, i try to recover data from a Maxtor 6Y080L0. On http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/e ... uage=en_US there details about CHS:

ACTUAL CYL 158,816
MAX CYL 16,383

But I know, that the maximum cylinder size can be max 65,536. So I think that MAX CYL should be the correct value.

The second problem is, that PhotoRec shows me 1600086528 cylinders (Screenshot below).

What is the correct value?

Re: Cylinder size

Posted: 08 Mar 2014, 19:09
by cgrenier
If your disk capacity is correct, don't bother with the number of cylinders.