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From: "Frederick Bowes" <fred@k1x.org>
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Subject: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)
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Hello!

I have a problem which i cannot seem to fix no matter what I do! I have a
120GB disk, which had windows XP/FreeBSD partions working fine on one
computer. Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects
a certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do
now, i cant get the system to boot off the disk, i have even tried
eraseing it with fdisk (freebsd and dos versions). Does anyone know how I
can save it?  I have tried everything and dont know where else to ask.

Frederick