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I used to have a maxtor hard drive as a slave and since then, i had EZ-BIOS installed. I replaced the maxtor hard drive (which i no longer have now) with an MDT hard drive and now i can't remove EZ-BIOS because when i run the Maxblast software from the diskette, it tells that it is only intended for Maxtor hard drives. How can i remove EZ-BIOS? Please Help!
P.S. I know I should've removed it before replacing the hard drive, but i completely forgot to remove EZ-BIOS and now that i don't have the hard drive, i can't.
Son Goten:
If you are not using the latest version of the maxblast software then try downloading/using the latest version. If that doesn't work and you still have the EZBIOS floppy, look on the floppy for removal instructions. It might tell you specifically how to remove it and/or their install program may have an uninstall option.
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removing the battery won't do anything for ez-bios, ez-bios is in the mbr of the hard drive, it's used when the computers bios can't
recognize the size of the hard drive. so if you can't remove it with maxblast, and you're sure you don't need it, the way to uninstall it is to run fixmbr from the winxp cd, then if you can't get into windows xp, run a repair install.
you may still need drive overlay software if you needed it before, ez-bios is drive overlay software, if you're using a pci ultra ata controller card then you wouldn't need it, otherwise you might want to keep using it. to be able to use the whole size of the hard drive.
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I have been told that you can run fixmbr from the recovery console and it should get rid of the signature left behind. Worth a try.
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It's not done via the bios or removing cmos battery.
Have a browse of the following links; they discuss it from various angles - with appropriate comments. The last link is complete Western Digital pdf on the whole nasty little util - incl. how to remove it.
http://www.esupport.com/faq/solution.cfm?articleid=1020
http://www.designcommunity.com/messages/4570.html
http://386.eznos.org/software/ezdrfb.pdf
Then provided the bios is able to handle drive of size installed, you should be able to access it all... If not then either re-install ezbios - or better still install a Promise (or similar) controller card, which will provide current bios, good for all OS, able to handle all current drives, and 2 x 2 EIDE channels. Cost around $30/£30
And a trawl via google.com for:
removing ezbios
will bring up more info.
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Depending on date of a computer's (motherboard's) bios a given hard drive may not be fully recognised by that bios.
Not so long ago most bios would handle/recognise somewhere around 2Gig max for a drive, then it moved up somewhat to perhaps 4-6Gig - may be to 8Gig; then things changed and the standard limit was well in excess of that 8Gig; currently it's ???Gig.
To get arond the limitation caused by a given bios, either one was able to flash/upgrade the bios (not orginally posible in early days...); or installed Promise or similar HDD controller card - which came with a more current bios and thus able to handle larger drives; or used add-in software - such as EZ-drive or On-Track to foolthe bios into being able to handle the larger drive.
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