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Bizarre issue with harddrive's CHS geometry
My PC's harddisk is a Samsung HD321KJ (32MB cache, 7200rpm, 320GB).
I was messing around with partitions today in a futile attempt to align my Windows system, and eventually just gave up and restored an image I had made just before.
In the process I noticed something totally weird...the drive itself suddenly reports a different CHS geometry. It used to be something like 38913, 255, 63 but now it reports 43009, 255, 57. Now all my partition software thinks track 0 is just 57 sectors long.
The total number of sectors on the HD remains the same, and there's no other ill effect so far. But...how the heck did this happen? Can I convince the drive to reset its reported CHS numbers? How?