Info from partition magic about the hard disks, disk 2 is the problem disk, also when i reistalled xp for some reason it installed on the I drive letter not the C, not a problem for now as whatever happens I will be re installing.
btw disk 2 says 16 heads on the info sticker.
General System Information:
Total Physical Memory (bytes): 1,608,957,952
Used Physical Memory: (bytes): 458,821,632
Maximum Page File Size: (bytes): 3,597,598,720
Current Page File Size: (bytes): 292,540,416
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Disk Geometry Information for Disk 1: 484521 Cylinders, 16 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track
Info: No partition table present on this drive.
System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect StartSect NumSects
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Disk Geometry Information for Disk 2: 30401 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track
System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect StartSect NumSects
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0 0 80 0 1 1 07 1023 254 63 63 488,375,937
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 0 80 0 1 1 07 30399 254 63 63 488375937
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Partition Information for Disk 1: 238,475.2 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect TotalSects
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Unallocated Pri 238,475.2 None -- 0 488,397,168
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Partition Information for Disk 2: 238,472.7 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect TotalSects
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I: NTFS Pri,Boot 238,464.8 0 0 63 488,375,937
Unallocated Pri 7.8 None -- 488,376,000 16,065
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Boot Record for drive I: (Drive: 2, Starting sector: 63, Type: NTFS)
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1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 488375936
17. MFT Start Cluster: 786432
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 30523496
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x466C61D66C61C173
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55