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Michael R. Grabois ... change $ to \s\
So there I was, chugging along with my circa-1996 Pentium 166MMX (with a WD 40
GB split into my C and E drives, a WD 180 GB as my D drive, with some sort of
IDE controller card to allow D to be one big drive bypassing the 167 GB limit
or whatever) and all of a sudden it decided not to reboot. I tried to reload
Win98 on top of it but it crashed partway through and now I can't get to it.
I loaded Partition Magic 8.0 onto an old 1.6 GB hard drive and tried to recover
what was my old C/E drive (the 40 GB). It said that I had two 20 GB partitions
with EZ-Drive. When I reboot, the BIOS recognizes that I have a 40 GB drive as
the slave drive but the EZ-Drive software doesn't load.
I tried loading the boot-disk version of PM but got this: "Error #89. EZ-Drive
has been detected on drive 1, but EZ-Drive is not running. If you are booting
from a floppy, remove the floppy disk and reboot. Press and hold the <CTRL> key
as your computer restarts. When prompted select <A>, then insert your boot
floppy." Well, doing that booted me into DOS and there was no <A> option as far
as I could tell. And booting up into DOS means I still can't load the EZ-Drive
to get to the hard drive.
I tried loading the EZ-Drive software onto my C drive (the 1.6 GB) but it said
that the file system didn't require it. The stuff on the WD web page regarding
EZ-Drive didn't seem to work on my setup.
When I boot into my 1.6 GB C drive with my 180 GB D drive and CD-ROM E drive,
no problems.
When I boot into my 1.6 GB C drive with my 40 GB D/E drive (which has EZ-Drive)
and CD-ROM F drive, it doesn't recognize the drive and just shows me C and the
CD as D..
When I replace the CD drive with the 40 GB drive and configure the jumpers for
single drive, it won't boot up at all.
On top of all that, my primary IDE slot on the motherboard seems to be failed.
I have my C drive plugged into the primary IDE slot on the IDE controller card,
with my CD-ROM plugged into the secondary IDE slot on the motherboard.
I think that's it - any suggestions on how to configure things so that I can
run EZ-Drive and access my 40 GB drive? Thanks for whoever can (or is willing
to) help.
GB split into my C and E drives, a WD 180 GB as my D drive, with some sort of
IDE controller card to allow D to be one big drive bypassing the 167 GB limit
or whatever) and all of a sudden it decided not to reboot. I tried to reload
Win98 on top of it but it crashed partway through and now I can't get to it.
I loaded Partition Magic 8.0 onto an old 1.6 GB hard drive and tried to recover
what was my old C/E drive (the 40 GB). It said that I had two 20 GB partitions
with EZ-Drive. When I reboot, the BIOS recognizes that I have a 40 GB drive as
the slave drive but the EZ-Drive software doesn't load.
I tried loading the boot-disk version of PM but got this: "Error #89. EZ-Drive
has been detected on drive 1, but EZ-Drive is not running. If you are booting
from a floppy, remove the floppy disk and reboot. Press and hold the <CTRL> key
as your computer restarts. When prompted select <A>, then insert your boot
floppy." Well, doing that booted me into DOS and there was no <A> option as far
as I could tell. And booting up into DOS means I still can't load the EZ-Drive
to get to the hard drive.
I tried loading the EZ-Drive software onto my C drive (the 1.6 GB) but it said
that the file system didn't require it. The stuff on the WD web page regarding
EZ-Drive didn't seem to work on my setup.
When I boot into my 1.6 GB C drive with my 180 GB D drive and CD-ROM E drive,
no problems.
When I boot into my 1.6 GB C drive with my 40 GB D/E drive (which has EZ-Drive)
and CD-ROM F drive, it doesn't recognize the drive and just shows me C and the
CD as D..
When I replace the CD drive with the 40 GB drive and configure the jumpers for
single drive, it won't boot up at all.
On top of all that, my primary IDE slot on the motherboard seems to be failed.
I have my C drive plugged into the primary IDE slot on the IDE controller card,
with my CD-ROM plugged into the secondary IDE slot on the motherboard.
I think that's it - any suggestions on how to configure things so that I can
run EZ-Drive and access my 40 GB drive? Thanks for whoever can (or is willing
to) help.