Somehow my sisters IBM thinkpad laptop messed up, and before loading the OS on boot the screen would turn black and loose responsiveness. I managed to work out and locate the error that it coudnt find an operating system. Id had this problem before and it was solved by reparing the mbr. I booted up ubuntu live cd (the os is beside the point) and ran TestDisk to solve the problem, however it gave me this error
Disk /dev/hda - 38154 MB - CHS 77520 16 63
Check current partition structure
Partition Start End Size in sectors
check_NTFS: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 240 (NTFS) != 16 (HD)
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 77519 15 63 78140097
Warning: Bad ending head (CHS and LBA don't match)
and
Warning: the current number of heads per cylinder is 16
but the correct value may be 255.
Use the Geometry menu to change this value.
i changed the value from 16 to 255 but then:
Disk /dev/hda - 38154 MB - CHS 4864 255 63
Check current partition structure
Partition Start End Size in sectors
check_NTFS: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 240 (NTFS) != 255 (HD)
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 4863 254 63 78140097
help. i think i just need to know the correct number of heads but i might be wrong
Disk /dev/hda - 38154 MB - CHS 77520 16 63
Check current partition structure
Partition Start End Size in sectors
check_NTFS: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 240 (NTFS) != 16 (HD)
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 77519 15 63 78140097
Warning: Bad ending head (CHS and LBA don't match)
and
Warning: the current number of heads per cylinder is 16
but the correct value may be 255.
Use the Geometry menu to change this value.
i changed the value from 16 to 255 but then:
Disk /dev/hda - 38154 MB - CHS 4864 255 63
Check current partition structure
Partition Start End Size in sectors
check_NTFS: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 240 (NTFS) != 255 (HD)
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 4863 254 63 78140097
help. i think i just need to know the correct number of heads but i might be wrong
