Western Digital ez-bios

Tracker · #1 (**permalink**) 20-11-2004, 12:26 AM

Hello everyone,
I currently have a 45 gig WD 5400 hardrive in my computer. Originally I had Win ME for the O/S and decided that I was better off formatting and putting Win 98 SE on instead (ME was not very stable). I did the fdisk, format and loaded the O/S and then I discovered that 45 Gig suddenly became 10 Gigs!
I have gone back and disabled the EZ Bios using the Data lifeguard tools disk (version 2.5) that came with the HDD when I built the system...redid the fdisk, format, and it still only wants to recover 10 gigs. The system bios is seeing the full 45 gigs, but I just cannot seem to find a way to completely wipe the ENTIRE disk and start fresh.
Help...this machine is making me crazy!!
Thank you! Tracker

DJNafey · #2 (**permalink**) 22-11-2004, 09:17 PM

Isn't there a 36Gb partition limit or something under Windows 98? I've fitted big hard disks for Win98 before but never in a single partition. Have you tried two smaller partitions?

If you are doing this off of a Western Digital floppy disk, then it might also be worth trying to do it from a Microsoft boot disk - you can get these from www.bootdisk.com.

Tracker · #3 (**permalink**) 22-11-2004, 09:28 PM

Thank you...I will attempt to partiton and if I still have a problem I will check out the links! Tracker

DJNafey · #4 (**permalink**) 03-12-2004, 02:04 AM

Did you get your hard disk problem sorted Tracker?

Tracker · #5 (**permalink**) 03-12-2004, 04:06 PM

Yes, and thank you for asking! I actually just finished it up a few days ago. I was sure that the HDD was going bad...but after many attempts to format and much research I discovered that the EZ Bios feature had an updated patch that would allow for easy removal!!! When I think of all of the the days I spent banging my head over this issue and it comes down to something so simple.....ARGHHH! Thanks again for all of your help, the links were priceless! Tracker

DJNafey · #6 (**permalink**) 03-12-2004, 08:33 PM

Glad to hear you got it up and running

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