Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:33:58 +1000 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] EZ-BIOS revisited
At 07:21 PM 23/06/2003 -0700, you wrote:
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 02:17:23 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: EZ-BIOS revisited
I found a page on the WD website explaing how to remove EZ-BIOS from my 20GB HDD:
http://support.wdc.com/faqs/software/ezdrive.asp
It also indicates that running 'FDISK /MBR' will deal with eliminating EZ-BIOS if that process fails.
If its already backed up, I'd go the nuke-everything-and-start-again route just to be safe ...
I'm thinking I'll run Partition Magic and delete all my partitions, as none of the partitions on the drive now were present when I 1st installed EZ-BIOS.
Why use PM? Or do you have some partitions that Fdisk doesn't like? (I ask because I think earlier versions of PM didn't play well with EZ-Bios ... later versions were EZ-Bios aware and would even refuse to run if it detected EZ-Bios on the drive but not in memory) ...
Then do the uninstallation of EZ-BIOS or run FDISK /MBR is that fails. And then just start over setting up partitions on the drive from scratch.
Good plan ...
Anyone concur, see problems, or have any suggestions?
All I can suggest (and you're probably already doing this anyway) is to set it up just as EZ-Bios wants (let it create all those FAT partitions, etc.), then when you go through and repartition with a (late) version of PM or with FDISK, whatever you do, don't touch the first partition ... I know Linux FDISK tends to screw up if it tries to create the first partition on an EZ-Bios-loaded drive (or at least the version with RH6 did) ... I dunno about other tools but I like to be somewhat safe about these things :-)
Good luck!
- Raymond
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