eggbert Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 There seems to be something very wrong with my partition table / MBR / whatever.Just recently I have started to get a lot of file system errors although there are definitely not bad sectors as confirmed by Maxtor diagnostics. Partition magic 8 reports that the drive is BAD and gives this error:Error #106: Partition didn't begin on head boundary. ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 7.When I go to the recovery console in XP and do 'fixmbr' it says there is something wrong with the MBR but doesn't actually fix it.I tried something called Partition Table Doctor which said there was a problem but the 'fix' seemed to involve deleting one the partitions which wasn't a great help, and it was a demo anyway.I have tried to use TestDisk but it doesn't make a lot of sense. Strangely, it says the disc geometry is CHS 24792/255/63 but Maxtor diag says it is 395136/16/63, is this the cause? However I looked at the geometry of another (working) drive and testdisk values also didn't match the maxtor ones.This is what PartitionInfo says:===========================================================================================================Disk Geometry Information for Disk 1: 24792 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors/TrackSystem PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect StartSect NumSects=========================================================================================================== 0 0 80 0 1 1 07 1023 254 63 63 48,596,562Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values are: 0 0 80 0 1 1 07 3024 254 63 63 48596562 0 1 00 1023 0 7 07 1023 254 63 48,596,631 349,686,849Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values are: 0 1 00 3025 0 7 07 24791 254 63 48596631 349686849Error #106: Partition didn't begin on head boundary. ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 7.Any help is very much appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Try another IDE/ATA cable, if that doesn’t help remove all partitions and make new ones. Just backup your stuff before proceeding in deleting partitions . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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