Eyedoctor2

SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much jaclaz!! I was able to correct the error by connecting the 200 gb hard drive directly to the motherboard, whether or not the SATA drive was also connected. Also had no problem if the 200gb drive was on the motherboard, SATA was disconnected and dvd drives were connected to the motherboard. But when I reconnected the 200gb card to the ide controller card the problem recurred. I looked up the drivers that the card was using and for some CRAZY reason Windows XP2 was using the older of the two available drivers. When I switched to the newer driver....... SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can now go back to using Norton Ghost to backup my C: drive. Thanks so much for your help! Have a great Thanksgiving. God bless, wz

I will run chkdsk when I get home. I previously ran chkdsk /r and chkdsk /p and it reported uncorrectable errors. Would it help at all if I opened up the box and connected the hard drive directly to the motherboard, temporarily disconnecting my dvd and dvdrw drives? My reluctance to blame the controller card stems from the fact that when the card bios screen flashes up at the beginning it detects a 186 gb drive. Also, Norton Ghost previously ran with this controller card though I did not have the sata drive attached to the motherboard at that time. History- I previously had the 186gb ide drive partitioned and was saving backups via Ghost on one partition. The hard drive was on the controller card and the dvd and dvdrw were on the motherboard along with a cdrw drive. I then purchased the sata drive, removed the partitions on the 186gb drive and removed the cdrw drive. So presently sata drive is on motherboard, along with dvd and dvdrw. 186 gb ide continues to be on controller card. I don't know if this information helps much but as an eyedoctor it never hurts to get a good medical history. Thanks again for your willingness to help. Edit: RESULTS OF CHKDSK I am going to include 3 gifs with this post. First is screenshot of chkdsk Second is Norton Partition Magic summary screen Third is error message given when trying to resize using Norton Partition Magic. Hope that helps! Thanks again!

Jaclaz, Again thanks! First, the Atapi.sys version is current. Second, Windows does report the drive to be 186 gb. Just as it reports that my secondary hardrive is 320gb. The problem is with partion magic, testdisk and beeblebrox all report it to be 131+gb. I know that this is a new problem because previously Norton Ghost and Partition Magic worked fine without any reported errors. I have at this time a backup created by Norton Ghost 77 days ago but hate to go back that far as I am always making changes. I thought that all this time Norton Ghost had been making automatically scheduled incremental backups. I didn't realize the problem until I tried to use Ghost to create another full backup. I believe the problem started after removing the partitions in the C (200gb) drive with partition magic. I have contacted symatec support but am still waiting to hear back from them. I am not at home so I can't try the other utilities that you suggest. I will try tonight. Is there a software program that I can use to correct the partition size without losing the data on the hard drive? Thanks again!

Jaclaz, First thank you very much for replying. I apologize for not including my OS- Windows XP SP2. Running beeblebrox I get the exact values you listed except Numsectors 390716802 I ran http://www.48bitlba.com/enablebiglbatool.htm and it said that since I have sP2 that it passed and there was nothing to do. Should I purchase the infotool? You are correct that I have run Partition Magic several times in the past. The most recent time I used it to remove all partitions that I had previously made. I did so after purchasing the new 320gb sata hard drive. Thanks again for your help!

Jaclaz, I have seen from you posts on various forums that you are obviously an MBR wiz and I am having a problem. I followed your instructions in this thread and this is what is reported: Drive 1 Disk size = 131069 (MB) Cylinders = 16709 Tracks per cylinder = 255 Sectors per track = 63 Bytes per sector = 512 Disk size = 137436203520 (Bytes) = 127 (GB) # Boot Size (MB) Type 1 Yes 190779 7 NTFS or HPFS 2 0 0 None 3 0 0 None 4 0 0 None My system has two hard drives. For some reason drive 0 is my secondary (non boot) drive. It is a sata 320 gb drive connected to the mainboard. My drive 1 as seen above is my boot drive. It is a 200 gb ide attached to a western digital controller card. When the machine boots up the controller card reports 186 gb. Windows recognizes all 186 gb as well. But Norton Ghost says Cannot enable the job because it contains invalid drives. Norton Partition Magic reports Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk. ucEndCylinder (24320) must be less than 16709. I looked up the error on Symantec support and they say it's either bios (seems to report 186 gb), controller card (no problem in past) or the MBR. I have thought of running fixmbr but am reluctant to do so. I tried to backup the mbr using your program. I tried to attach it to this post but was unable (error not permitted to upload a file with that extension). I also tried to use TESTDISK as I saw that you recommended that to someone on another post. It reports 137GB/ 127GiB CHS 16709 255 63. "The hard disk seems too small! Check the hard disk size" . I tried to change the geometry but received an error message. Can you please help me?