new drive bad?

[ejr]

The original 40gig drive for my a31p 2653-r9u, went south. I bought a new 60 gig from bill morrow and put it in its place and got a replacement 40 gig from ibm and installed it in the other slot, on the left. It works fine.

However, I happen to launch partition magic 8 today and the following message appeared:

Disk2 (385154mb 5168c 240h 63s) appears to have partitions using a different drive geometry (255h 63s). This serious problem can lead to data loss. No partition manipulations should be made to this disk using this product or the operating system's products. You should back up the data on the disk, delete all partitions, create new partitions under the new disk geometry, and then restore the data using the backup.

In fact, I merely put the hard disk in the machine and I am using it with only one partition. Is the above mesasge to be taken serioiusly?

[cynic]

The original 40gig drive for my a31p 2653-r9u, went south. I bought a new 60 gig from bill morrow and put it in its place and got a replacement 40 gig from ibm and installed it in the other slot, on the left. It works fine.

However, I happen to launch partition magic 8 today and the following message appeared:

Disk2 (385154mb 5168c 240h 63s) appears to have partitions using a different drive geometry (255h 63s). This serious problem can lead to data loss. No partition manipulations should be made to this disk using this product or the operating system's products. You should back up the data on the disk, delete all partitions, create new partitions under the new disk geometry, and then restore the data using the backup.

In fact, I merely put the hard disk in the machine and I am using it with only one partition. Is the above mesasge to be taken serioiusly?

Partition Magic is know to give false error readings. I wouldn't trust it. (In fact, if you search for your error with google, you'll find countless of people who have received it in error) Use the system check from the bios to check drives if you're truly worried. Just be ready for it to take a long time (I'd schedule the check overnight at least) Also, if PM offers to correct drive geometry errors, do not say yes. There are cases where PM has made the MBR(master boot record) unreadable. It's fixable without losing data, but in the interim it is a real annoyance.