HDD problem!!!

[PeonM]

Hi guys,

I recently bought a maxtor hdd. Install it using the Max Blast program.. The installation was very smooth.. until I decided to backup my files and reformat my drive.

Then the problem hits. With the initial installation of the HDD, the Maxtor utility installed EZ bios.. but upon formatting the drive, EZbios cease to exist anymore. So now the operating system doesn't detect the drive anymore. Using the windows bootdisk, I went into Fdisk. It detects my Hdd, and considers it a Non-Dos partition. I rebooted with the Max Blast bootdisk. Once again the bootdisk detects the HDD, but the information said that it was formatted FAT32, and it showed all my backed up files too. Well, so I tried to re install EZbios just so I can at least get to them files. Problem is that I can't reinstall it

So can you guys help me recover these files?? Your help would be greatly appreciated, and I know not to use that EZbios crap anymore!!


PeonM

 

[thatmaguy]

Here is a bump for you. Good luck

 

[Big Lar]

I'm sitting here getting a headache trying to remember what I did a longggggg time ago when this happened to me, I think I dl'd a new version of ezbios from maxtor site, and that fixed it, but don't hold me to this.....

 

[PeonM]

thnx for the replies!!

I figured the problem.. I went to my motherboard bios and changed the boot sequence to my Maxtor Drive w/EZ Bios. And voila! The files were all there, and I just copied to my primary hdd.


PeonM

 

[GregMal]

This is just my experience but whenever you can avoid install
software like EZbios, Ontrack etc, do so!!! Sometimes you can just
use fdisk and format to get rid of it, sometimes you have to use
the software to "uninstall" itself from the boot record.
I just try to avoid using it.......Greg

 

[Stripe]

If you ever want to format a drive that has been installed using one of these utilities, you have to uninstall using the original prog or just from dos do format/mbr (means master boot record)

 

[Bcomp]

To fully remove a Overlay program you must run a debug script on your drive. I have had to do this many times over the past few years.

Follow these instructions to the letter.
You will need a boot disk with debug on it.




Debug Script

Run FDISK first to kill the FAT file.

Boot from a Dos system disk that contains Debug.exe.
At the A: prompt type these lines exactly as shown:
(<ENTER> stands for the Enter Key, <SPACE BAR> stands for the Space Bar Key.)

debug<ENTER>
a<ENTER>
mov<SPACE BAR>ax,330<ENTER>
mov<SPACE BAR>cx,1<ENTER>
mov<SPACE BAR>dx,80<ENTER>
mov<SPACE BAR>bx,3800<ENTER>
mov<SPACE BAR>es,bx<ENTER>
mov<SPACE BAR>bx,0<ENTER>
int13<ENTER>
int3<ENTER>
<ENTER>
g=100<ENTER>
<ENTER>
q<ENTER>

After you must fdisk and format the drive.

This WILL remove any information on the drive incluing viruses and overlays !!!
Ron