How remove Easybios Drive overlay software ?

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Hi,
I want to add a slave 120GB maxtor to a system running XP pro on a primary
120GB Maxotor. The 2nd drive comes from a single drive system, and has
win98se on it. It has Easybios on it. It has two jumpers on it making it a
master. XP has 8 meg cache, 98 has 2 Meg cache, but I doubt that has
anything to do with it. I have no documentation.

When I set the jumpers to slave in the normal manner, XP doesn't see it. Oh
yeah, it's FAT32, and the XP drive is NTFS or something like that.

I tried cable select but that didn't work either. By itself, it boots to
win98se so I know the drive is good.

Is there a way to remove easybios so that xp will see it as a slave like I
want it to? Is there a double jumber arrangement that makes it into a
slave? And if there is, can anybody tell me how to do it?

If I just blow it out and reformat, will that take out the easybios?

Thanks,

Sammy
 
Hi,

It's not possible to simply reformat the disk or remove the partition
with fdisk. Easybios creates a boot partition onto the drive which is
invisible. One way would be to get a hold of the utility and diagnostic
program of the hdd maker and rewrite 0's to the entire drive. That should
erase Easybios.
However, the straightforward way is to find the program that installed
Easybios. Who is the maker of the hdd with Easybios on it?
Go to their website and look under downloads and utilities. Easybios should
still be available. Download the program and create a floppy disk with the
program, reading its directions of course. Install the hdd alone on your new
computer and run the Easybios disk following the directions to remove the
program from the hdd.
 
~A_Sammy said:
If I just blow it out and reformat, will that take out the
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easybios?

None of Microsnot's versions of FDISK will remove EZBIOS.

CLEARHDD.EXE will ; and it's damned fast . and FREE.

http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/clearhdd.htm

Samsung claims it's a low-level formatter; *WRONG* . All
clearhdd.exe does is "zero out" the bootsector -- the first 10
cylinders of all platters.

But that's exactly what most of us need. It's far faster to run
clearhdd than to get into "fdisk hell" when all we want to do is
blow away a bootsector and "start over" . I've used it for 10 years
now and it's worked on EVERY drive; including 200g drives on
Promise controllers; SCSI drives... whatever.

It's only 11K ; add it to your favorite "boot disk" .
 
Hi R. Asby Dragon,

Thanks for the link. That's exactly what I was looking for.
11K. That's amazing. Remeinds me of the days when
tight code was something programmers strove for, but
then again, this is old code. Today it would probably be
a half gig and require a P4 to run it. ;)

Sammy
 
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