I do not want to discourage you or anything but if I remember correctly WD
fez-bios will not let it run on anything but a WD drive. I know that is not
going to help. You might want to try to download an upgrade from the IBM
website if possible. Hope this helps.
brad marden
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] EZ-bios woes


> Paul, I am not positive, but it seems to me that the EZ-Drive software
> would be part of the boot sector information. If you made the IBM drive
> as the new boot device, the computer no longer has the translation
> information to read the WD drive. Have you tried to put the WD back as
> master and boot from it? If you did not mess with its boot partition,
> then it should still work and you can then access your information. Save
> the data and then mess with the drive.
>
> Peter
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> The NoSpin Group
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> Downloaded Western Digital's drive overlay software (forgotten the name)
> and removed EZ-bios from the IBM drive.  In the process, it gave the
> option to "upgrade" EZ-bios or abort.  I upgraded.  I am absolutely sure
> I chose the IBM drive for this process (WD's software called it drive
> 2).
>
> Unplugged the Maxtor drive, made the IBM the master, and installed Win
> ME.
>
> Well, when putting the Maxtor back in as slave, I can't access it.
> Fdisk sees a "non-DOS" partition.
>
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