>Jason: >Correct me if I am wrong. Okay :)
>You have a 20 Gb hard drive that has come into your >possession. It never worked for you but you would like to >get the files off it. You have tried it in various computer >setups with no success. Because you cannot access the drive >you believe it is a mbr problem. Maybe yes, maybe no. No. It used to work fine. Then one day it didn't. Scandisk (the dos-looking one for Windows 98) said it was trying to repair it, then said it couldn't. >What you have is a hard drive that was formatted using >EZ BIOS in a computer with ROM BIOS that could not >access a 20 Gb drive. Connect the drive as the Primary It turns out this PC should be able to acess this drive size. EX Bios is unnecessary. >master in your computer. If the EZ BIOS set up has not >been damaged by your attempts to access it, EZ BIOS will >make the drive size look like the size acceptable to the >ROM BIOS under which it was formatted. Watch the True... >opening screen where the data for the hard drive is given. >If it shows about 2 Gb, then you can have 2 Gb partitions. >If it shows about 8 Gb, then you can have 8 Gb partitions. >(these numbers are well rounded). Ok well I am just trying to fix the boot sector since the drive utility disk also said the same as scandisk. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
