No boot harddrive

[GEC]

A frind gave me a almost new 3 gig HDD. I ran fdisk, deleted "all" partitions and formated c:/s. When the system boots up it looks for something called EZ BIOS on this harddrive, can not find it and asks for a system disk. The HDD works fine as a "D" drive but I want the HDD to be bootable so how do I get rid of this EZ BIOS thing?
GEC

[CMonster]

this might work for you:


Set drive as primary master (IDE 1) and boot from a floppy. Type in "fdisk /mbr" and hit enter wait, then reboot. You might also want to do a "sys c:" after that.

adendum: yeah, killerbug steered you in the right direction; I have never dealt with 'easy BIOS' so I do not know if it puts a small hiden partition on the drive or just puts itself into the MBR - I suspect the former.

[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 11-21-1999).]

[KillerBug]

No, go to maxtors web site, they have EZ-bios there, you can download it and modify the way the drive is set up.

[GEC]

Thanks for the info. I cured the problem by going to the HDD'S net site and downloaded a version of "ON TRACK". This allowed me to overwrite the EZ BIOS stuff then it allowed me to delete the ON TRACK stuff. This allowed me to use the standard FDISK and FORMAT commands from a Win98 s/u disk. I am going to check the Maxtor site for the EZ BIOS software just to see what it is. Also I am putting the fdisk/mbr command into my notebook for future use. Thanks again!!!!!
GEC