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[ The PC Guide | Systems and Components Reference Guide | Hard Disk Drives | Hard Disk BIOS and Capacity Factors | Hard Disk BIOS Translation Modes ] Caveats on Changing Translation Modes and Transferring Hard Disks Between PCs It is important to recognize that even though both enhanced CHS and LBA modes involve the use of translated geometry, this does not mean that it is guaranteed that they will work the same way. In particular, LBA translation may result in a different set of geometries than ECHS translation. Similarly, different BIOSes can in theory use different means of translating. Moving a hard disk that was formatted on one PC to another will usually work OK, but sometimes may not. The chances of a problem increase as the difference in age between the two systems increases.
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