greetings In my recent noob past, due to a flubbed windows-linux install, I messed with the cylinders of my new and trashed disk with some linux command I now forget. (on the advise of another forum I probably should not have been reading)
Anyhow, today...qparted correctly sees a 6L300R0 (300G Maxtor DiamondMax) as having about 300G BUT text on its resize graphic indicates that *some* part of the system sees the partition as about 40Mg. A subsequent install attempt (from Auditor LiveCD) hangs about halfway through "copying files." How can I get this drive into a usable state? I *think* I need to fix some info stored on the drive but dont know how or exactly what that information (# cylinders?) would be. BTW: dmesg shows the drive originally identified as "6E040L0" (a Maxtor 40G drive) Any help or references greatly appreciated. -- Basil
