Comment 25 for bug 112402

Here's the file with the suggested skip value.

I think I may know my problem. Toshiba Qosmios come with a instant on TV/DVD player. This is eating about 100MB of space off of sda (Disk 1). I have tried all sorts of things to recover this space. Every utility I have tried simply doesn't see it correctly (as 80GB), and the few that do report it correctly, report it incorrectly at the same time in a differnt part of the tool. I've tried testdisk, UBCD, Parted Magic Live CD, Gparted live cd... Any Suggestions? The second disk is identical except for size. the Serial #'s are even sequential. I have the correct values from the second disk (sector count, geometry, etc.), but when I try to modify disk 1, it will not save it.

The Qosmio Player CD that Toshiba sent me, and that is available for download on their site, will not remove it because it's a different version (the cd) than what came installed on the computer.) They updated the version because a BIOS update broke the old version. The BIOS (Toshiba made BIOS), when I recreated the array, reports disk 1 as 79GB and disk 2 as 80GB. I'm beginning to think, unless I can find something to low-level edit and format the disk, I might have to wait until this spring when I upgrade the hard drives.

That was probably information overload, but thanks for any help.