Error 18

[Paul Gear]

Chris Taylor wrote:
> I get this message now and again when I start my computer "Error 18 
> Selected cylinders exceeds maximum supported by BIOS.
> can anyone help

Is your hard disk (or RAID set) larger than 2 TB?  If so, more than
likely you'll not be able to boot from it at all.

If it only happens intermittently, you may have a hardware problem which
causes the hard disk to report the wrong number of cylinders.

Paul

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