partitionmagic and ez bios?

[ANTONIO E GUERRA]

You can create a primary active partition and an extended partition with fdisk.

[hhieu]

ANTONIO is right. You can only have 1 primary,1 etended. And from the extended partition, you can create logical partitions (as many as you want). Using percentage will be easier for ya....

[Zeeker]

I have a maxtor 11.5 gig HDD. I have EZ-Bios installed. Drive was partitioned using fdisk with only one large partition. I'm considering creating two primary and a couple logicial partitions from the extended partition. If you have any tips or tricks or comments or suggestions, I would be very interested in hearing them before I get myself in a mess.

TIA

Zeeker

[JPD_Kaiu]

I have a Western Digital 6 GB Hard Drive, which has been working recently, untill I reloaded Windows 98 Plus on it. Now when you go to boot up the computer, it will try to boot up the computer, all you get is the sentence "ez bios running" all the way down the screen. EZ Bios is the driver/program for that hard drive,which is apparently out of date,installed by the manufacture. If anybody can give me some tips, that would be highly appreciated.
Thanks, J Dunning

[jad1097]

On Windows 2000 a physical drive can have up to four primary partitions and up to one extended partition.

[EastSt]

for Zeeker....If you're going to reformat you might have some junk left over from EZ Bios which windows format has a hard time removing.

Suggest you go to maxtor web site and d/l
Maxiblast which is maxtors formating and disk utility program.

[EastSt]

for JPD-Kaiu.....Get yourself a current version of EZ Bios and use that to fix your drive. Probably can find it on Western Digital Site.
EZ Bios is basically used to load "large" disks that the OS could not handle. You can use it easily.

[JPD_Kaiu]

Thanks, Eastst. I got the program and that drive works again. Unfortunently, I now have another Western Digital Drive with problems. It isn't the bios, it's bad sectors. This drive is 15 gb in size. All was fine untill a program that changes the start menu icons,etc. was installed. When you go to boot it up, Scandisk runs, but locks up when doing a surface scan. If you skip Scandisk, the computer will load, but very slowly. The Western Digital program locks up also when I try to fix the drive. If Anybody can help me out on this situation, it would be greatly appreciated.

[elroy]

Go to WD's website and get Data Lifeguard and test the drive. They also have an online HD tester on their site.