BL> It amounts to the same thing if you run LBA and fsdisk, doesn't
 BL> it? I thought that was what LBA did: change all the addresses.
 BL> The data is still there... it's just that you don't know where.

 KR> in theory, there should be no problem with accessing the data
 KR> either way unless the bios has the wrong disk geometry. there
 KR> are some problems also with the lba algorithms with some
 KR> bioses, from memory, western digital's is suspect. 

  Are you saying that you can reverse LBA by switching it off and
running fdisk again? I can see how it *could* be made reversible, but
is it?

Regards,
Bob
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