In a message dated 11/23/2005 4:51:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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If the  Win 95 HD had an overlay on it you might have this problem.  That was
 often done to allow Win 95 machines to see big drives (like 4.3-6.4 gigs was
 big then).  Western Digital had their own installation software called
EZ-drive.  If you bought a small "big drive" off ebay it may also have an  overlay
on it. In order to make drives like that useful you will need to find  a copy
of EZ-drive (if the drive(s) are WD brand), load it on a bootable  floppy and
remove the overlay.  I think Maxtor had something similar, but  you will have
to google search because they don't use those anymore. I may  have a copy of
EZ-drive somewhere, and if you think that is the problem, if  the drive is a
WD, and if you can't find a download of it with a google  search,  I'll e-mail
it to you (it is a small download measurable in  Kilobytes). Personally, I
wouldn't waste that much time on such an old machine  because you will have to
repeat the overlay to install any drive over 2  gigs.  If you are going to give
it away, put the drive back, burn a copy  of Win 98 and include that in the
gift.  Some enterprising young  turbogeek will figure it out.


Hi,
  A quick way to remove the overlay is to use FDISK /MBR
This will rewrite the Master Boot Record (which is where the overlay
resides).
Be warned that getting rid of the overlay will render any existing data on
the drive unreadable, so don't do this if you wish to recover any existing data
 from the drive.

HTH,
Peter  Hogan
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