Do you have Norton Utilities if you do then use disk edit to select the 1st
500 sectors of the drive and fill them with 0 that will make EZ-drive and
any other data you had on the drive go away. So at least you can use the
LBA mode on the computer.

At 04:49 AM 2/18/98 GMT, you wrote:
>Have a 3.2WD which was loaded with EZdrive for some reason.  Also had
>4 partitions which I deleted, preferring two at 2gb and 1.2gb
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>However, killing EZ has become a real adventure.  After the usual
>fdisk and format, the first segments of C: take forever to scan, the
>hard drive clicks and the format is slow.  Called WD and tekkie said
>that EZ must be removed.  His instructions were surprisingly conplex
>for what should be simple, and like a fool, I didn't note them
>exactly.  I **think** he wanted me to enter CMOS, remove the LBA
>status, boot to a disk, and then the EZ disk.  Removed EZ per the
>utilities, reboot again, and reset the CMOS, with shutdowns in
>between.  Anyway, that was the gist of it, but nothing helps.
>
>He agreed the intial burps and clicks on scandisk was the EZ trying to
>do it's magic...or something.
>
>Anyone have experience with this?
>
>thanks
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