If the overlay is EZ-Drive or EZ-BIOS you will need to remove it.  To do that you need to get a copy of EZ-Drive/BIOS and make a bootable disk with it. To get a copy of version 9.04 do a google search for it. Follow the instructions for removing it when you boot from that disk.

>Dear All
>I have a hard disk which has dynamic drive overlay on
>it because it was originally in an older computer. I
>wish to use this disk in a new computer I have built
>and do not need dynamic drive overlay as the bios can
>cope with larger hard drives. Everything on the disk
>has been backed up using microsoft backup (Win98SE).
>if I reformat the hard disk and then copy back all the
>backup CD's will the dynamic drive overlay be
>reinstalled along with all the data etc or is
>'DDO'treated as part of the formatting process rather
>than data and not backed up?


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