From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Maybe the BIOS doesn't support the drive size????

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Glenn M.
"Robert Comer"  wrote in
message news:43133590{at}w3.nls.net...
> Sounds like a hardware problem with the drive...
>
> - Bob Comer
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> "Scott"  wrote in message
> news:43133185$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Scott wrote:
>>
>> Odd, still getting directory errors although I reformatted the disk and
>> then restored it with all files replaced (wasn't the recommended method
>> according to ntbackup; it wanted to keep files, newer I think).
>>
>> Could it be an odd corruption in the OS files?
>>
>>> Good morning all!
>>>
>>> My problem, to get to it, is a hard drive issue/
>>>
>>> I Ghosted a copy of my previous drive (80 gig) to a newer 100 gig.
>>>
>>> The previous drive has already been retasked.
>>>
>>> But now, I'm getting a drive geometry error:
>>>
>>> CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
>>> master file table (MFT) bitmap.
>>> CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
>>> Windows found problems with the file system.
>>> Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have run chkdsk multiple times both in /f and /r modes; no joy.
>>>
>>> Also, on occasion, I get "Orphaned file" and
"Truncating extents"
>>> errors. This is obviously serious.
>>>
>>> So... I've done an NTBACKUP of the drive. I'd like to know what the
>>> proper restore should be. Also, was there something I should have done
>>> in the backup to ensure (besides verify which I did, no errors) it's
>>> proper restore?
>>>
>>> Scott/SpiritWolf
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