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nemodat

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December 31st, 2005 22:00

PartitionMagic error message: LHS ≠ CHS

Hello,
 
This is a followup question to my earlier posts about creating a new partition on my Inspiron 6000 , which included the need to create a bootable disk.
 
Thanks to the help of board members, particularly the expertise of Dan Goodell, I managed to create a Data partition while retaining the two secret partitions of Dell (Utility and DellRestore) and of course the System partition where Win XP Home Edition still lives.
 
I would like to set up a multi boot system to try out Windows Media Centre Edition. However, when I booted from my Win98 boot disk and launched PQMagic with the goal of creating another partition, the following error message appeared:
 
"Norton PartitionMagic has detected on error 116 on the partition at sector 80326 on disk 2. The starting LBA value is 80325 and the CHS value is 40320. The LBA and the CHS values must be equal. PartitionMagic has verified that the LBA is correct -- would you like to fix the CHS value?"
 
I used Dan's DSRFIX program to fix the partition tables after I create the Data partition, and I wonder whether this is related to the error message.
 
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks,
Nemo
 
 

dg1261

623 Posts

January 1st, 2006 03:00

Hi, Nemo,

Dsrfix isn't supposed to change the partition table (all it does is read/interpret the partition table), so I don't think they're related.  (If you happened to save a dsrfix.txt log file to show what was there before dsrfix did anything, we'd be able to tell for sure.)  Also, it sounds like you're saying this is on your second disk, while dsrfix shouldn't even look at the second disk.

While we may not be able to determine exactly what caused the error, this is normally an easy error to fix.  Partition Magic usually gets it right, but if you want a second opinion to be sure, send me a findpart report and I'll interpret it for you.  To do that, visit www.partitionsupport.com and download Mikkelsen's findpart utility.  Run it with the command "findpart all -fat findpart.txt", and email me the findpart.txt file it generates.
 
Dan Goodell
 

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