i opened the casing and it says:
Western Digital Caviar Black, 64 mb cache, model: WD1001FAES-00W7A0
LBA: 1953525168
it does not say what is the CHS geometry.
this LBA number can be divided by 63, leaving 31008336
but 31008336 can’t be divided nicely into 255 or 256 or 240. ends up with a decimal point behind.
sector size seems to be 512 because 1953525168 x 512 = 1 terabyte, which is the HDD size.
what do you think is the Heads number for this unit? 255 ? 256 ? something else ?
what would the CHS number be, for me to input into testdisk, to do a proper Analyze?
(By the way, I tried to do Analyze without correcting the CHS number - it went through the whole disk and says no partition found. asked if I wanted to “A” add a partition or just hit “Enter”)
thanks!
