Jason:
You said that the hard drive worked ok until
one day it stopped working. When it worked, what
was the size of the active partition? (the C: drive)
Did it work in the computer it is now in, the
one that can access a 20 Gb hard drive?
You should try it in the computer that is was in
when it was formatted. The boot area of the
hard disk has been changed by the EZ BIOS by
adding an overlay and there is
no telling what it looks like in an other computer.
If you cannot find a computer that lets you access
the active partition, then you have probably lost your
data. You should visit the manufacturer's web site
to see what you can do about accessing the active
partition or if you can recover the hard drive with
any software that they have available.
Wally
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:23:04 -0500 "Jason Arroyo"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >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.
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