What OS's would you be using??? If its Windows 98 it will see a formatted harddrive that isn't being controlled by the BIOS or EZDrive(any software overlay for that matter). I have a 36G Maxtor that my current BIOS(still waiting for BIOS upgrade from manufactuer--TekRam) I was able to format the drive and transfer data over to it, and then I uninstalled EZDRIVE from that drive. I'm booting using my Seagate 4.3 Gig Drive and Running Windows 98. The 36 Gig shows up as drive E: in Windows. If you run NT or 95 I don't know if those OS's will see the Drive, I assume 2000 would. As for Linux and the other Non-Windows OS's I would assume they would need the BIOS to have some sort of control over the drives. --Patrick Black ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Glazier" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 9:04 AM Subject: [PCBUILD] MaxBlast (EZdrive) > I want a "universal" hard drive that will hook up to and run > in "any" computer, no matter how old the BIOS... > It would not be a "boot" drive, as it would have too > many hardware/registry problems in that function, > so it would be a "portable" data moving drive only... > I want to limit myself to some files and directories, > not the entire contents of partitions, no moving an OS, etc. > It is a Maxtor 20g running on MaxBlast v1.11m. > Now the question(s): MaxBlast (EZdrive) would want > to install itself (at least as a loader?) on any systems' > boot drive I used this "other drive" on, Yes? > Would that cause any problems when the "other drive" > left the "guest-host" systems. > > NICs are not a problem, but would be "over-kill". > > Hope this is clear. Rick > > PCBUILD mailing list is brought to you by: > The NOSPIN Group > http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org > PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html