different drive geomatry

[ahbar]

I won't repeat all the good things my preddecessors have said about a bunch of good natured Geeks which are very hard to come by. I too am a Geek in computer ilitarate circles and understand the hardships one must undergo when dealing with non froods (hhgg)
Anyway my question... I was running partition magic and got a message saying the hard drive is using a different drive geomatry then it realy is but Win (damn the man) recognizes the frive and the info on it

any ideas

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[fixrupr]

Welcome ahbar!

Some specific information will help the real geeks assist you after they wake up.

What windows version are you using?
What brand and/or type computer is it?
What version partition magic are you using?
Have you previously been using Partition Magic on this machine? If so what did you do?

[YODA74]

This is a comparison of two products system commander and Partition magic
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Comparing the two products I prefer System Commander (V-Com). V-Com seems to do a much better job at fixing bugs and releasing patches when compared to Powerquest. Most notably when using Partition Magic (Powerquest) it would give me an error if I added a larger hard drive to my system then the product would support. Partition Magic will show "Disk Geometry Errors" often. It's seems that the Partition Magic product is much more sensitive to everything being correct as opposed to many other disk utilities including WinNT's own Disk Administrator, one would think this would be a good feature. However, in the case of adding a larger hard drive to a system it made their product unuseable for any hard drives in my system, even those smaller insize which should of been supported. System Commander on the other hand just does not recognize a hard drive if its size is beyond the products capability. Making the product still useable for the other hard drives in the system it can support. This difference alone I found as a major issue when comparing the products when looking at my needs. Partition Magic appears to have a more colorful and nicer interface though with the latest release of System Commander.
http://netmation.com/boot.htm

Here's the link if you'ed like to read more

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[mjc]

One other question to throw in the mix is this machine using drive overlay software?

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