BV> You *should* have made sure that it read Standard or Normal.
BV> If you select anything other than Normal, then you will have to redo
BV> the partition tables and reformat the drives. If you have written
BV> ANYTHING to the drives, they are fucked and you'll have to redo the
BV> entire lot from the FDISK stage.

PE> With 5.5 gig of storage, I can do anything!

With 5.5 Gig of storage and no backup, you can't do a fucking thing.

PE> Are you saying that I should reformat my 540 meg drive as
PE> Standard/Normal NOW, instead of how it currently is (LBA)?

If it is working then I'd leave it alone. At 540 Mb the translation
probably doesn't kick in until it tries to write to anything > 1024
cylinders.

PE> Or are you saying what I should have done at the time.

Yes. This is what I am saying. You should have repartitioned and
reformatted once you enabled LBA

PE> The way I had read it, I could format my drive as "standard", then
PE> switch to LBA, and the only risk was a possibility that my data
PE> would be hidden.

ROFL...Read gone. Not there. As good as erased.

PE> It wasn't.

All of the data must have been in front of the 1024 cylinder mark.

PE> Is the short story that once you have formatted with LBA, you
PE> can never switch to LBA?  BTW, why do I want LBA instead of
PE> non-LBA anyway?

No. The short (and condensed) story is that if a drive has been
installed (partitioned and formatted) with normal access, you leave
it alone. If you have more than 1024 cylinders and you want to use
the entire disk without driver software then you enable LBA mode.
If you are going to do this, then you enable LBA, partition, format,
load data.

Brenton
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