From: William Patton
Date: March 13, 2001
Subject: Installing a Promise ATA 100 controller card
hello:  I installed a WD 10 gig HD into my system, which is an ASUS MB/HX
chipset, 200cpu, bios 05/1997.  I didn't want to use the EZ install overlay
software, but I did at the time.  Now I would like to install a new
controller card and remove the EZ software. Questions:
(1) Can someone give me some tips on installing and using this card.  I have
never used one.
(2) Will I be able to boot from the drive installed on the card? Is it
recognized by my MB bios?
(3) If I uninstall the EZ software will my data still be able to be read or
will I loose whatever is installed on the drive.  I was hoping not to
reformat.
(4) When I origianlly installed the EZ software and the 10 gig drive, it was
a drive "D" and I didn't think the EZ would install on my "C" drive, but it
did.  Why would that be? I didn't need it for that drive, just for the new
drive.  If I unistall it on that drive will that data be lost?
(5) Is this the preferred method of installing a larger HD or should I keep
the EZ software.  The reason I want to get rid of it is because I want to
Ghost the HD and they say I'll have problems if using overlay (EZ) software.
Thank you for any input on these matters.  William Patton

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