Bios Q

[biikman]

A little background first. Since my bios was so old, it didn't recognise large hard drives, and since I have a WD 6.4 and a WD 13.2, I had to use western digitals ez-bios so I would have full access to them. Last night iflashed my bios. Now that I have a new bios that supports large HD's, I disabled ez-bios. So far so good. here's the problem. When I boot to dos mode from the start menu, only c is recognised, and if I boot with the custom boot disk I made, c is there and D is the cdrom. It should be c is the 13.2g, d is the 6.4g and e is the cdrom. weird thing is is when the system boots, the bootup dialog shows all drives as being detected and they are all there in windows. I have both drives set to "auto" detect in the bios, and tried changing em to specify them exactly. Anyone have a clue to whats up or what i could do to determine the problem. I have win98se, the 13.6g is primary master, the 6.4g is primary slave, and the cdrom is secondary master. perhaps changing the 6.4 to secondary master and cdrom to secondary slave?
dave

[BFlurie]

Let us know your detailed system specs, Win ver., etc.

[biikman]

Win98SE, p166 with a 13.6g HD as primary master, 6.4g as primary slave, and 24x cdrom as secondary master. SB32, 3com network card for roadrunner. Any other info you need plz ask, shoulda had all this in original post http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
Dave

[Sterling_Aug]

Once you install EZ-Bios on a hard drive, it is almost impossible to get rid of it, even FDISK does NOT clean it off.

You will need to download the utility on the WD site that deletes the EZ-Bios info on the drive. Look for something called "KillBios"

[biikman]

After using partition magic to figure out what partition was what and the details, I realized that although I uninstalled ezbios, it apparently left some residue. I fdisked and started from scratch on D and that did the trick. ( I didn't find any reference to a file called killbios on WD's site) Thanks for the help and replies! Perhaps you can give me a clue on another matter. With the new BIOS, the floppy drive (I have 1 only) can be accessed by either typing a: or b:...even though in the bios, a is the floppy, and none is selected for b:...
not a biggie but is this right?

Dave

[Compukron]

What's wrong with leaving EZ-Bios on your drive? I have had it for years on mine. It doesn't seem to slow anything down. I had more troubles when I tried to disable it when I upgraded. Plus it has saved my bacon numerous times. Just curious, and no I don't work for WD.

See YA!

[BFlurie]

That's hilarious. I never tried it before, but typed:
b:
in a Dos window & got an enormous blue screen saying drive B not ready. I really don't even know if your situation is a problem.