stupid ez bios

[philipg]

You are right about the ez-bios. When I was attending night classes to update myself on the field of computers. We ran into this and what a pain in the A**. Ez-bios on a Western Digital drive didn't seem to let us install any kind of windows. When we were able to install windows on the drive. The drive won't let windows run efficiently. Long story shorttened we ended up doing the same thing you did. 4 classes wasted due to a stupid program called ez-bios. What in the world were programmers thinking of when they made this program.


Just my 2 cents.

[Gentle Giant]

Difference in the FAT seems tobe a thing not to fix. Does anyone have any info on what this realy is.
I would have checked for a possible virus though fishboy - just incase.

[john.s]

While I've heard the horror stories, for whatever it's worth, I used EZBios without problems for a couple of years on both Win95 & Win98 machines ... only reason I don't use it any more is that I now partition large drives for easier backup purposes.

And, fishboy, I do hope you have some virus protection running from time to time - if you do have a boot sector virus, you may end up spending more than an evening having to deal with it in the future.

[fishboy]

not a question but just a comment. I had to put in a new HD as mine died and I decided to try out the EZ Bios feature on the Maxtor config disk. Every time the machine boots, the bios virus protector thinks this is a sign of a boot sector virus and wont continue. Disabled this and booted up fine. Removed EZ Bios and then ran scandisk and it said there was a difference in the FAT which I foolishly let it "FIX" It turned all my directories in dir00001..dir0002 etc. In the end I had to fdisk, format and start all over again. An entire night wasted. I guess the point here is to keep it simple.