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 > >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 >My Windows 95 Crisis Center >http://home.earthlink.net/~robertpr >[don't forget the ~ tilde that earthlink uses] > > > PCBUILD: http://nospin.com or [log in to unmask] > > >