-=PCTechTalk=- Re: pctechtalk harddrive new question

hi tom
i was hoping there was something i could do that would not put
the rest of the contents at risk.
the situation is this -
my bios is a hongkong oem and an attempt to upgrade went very
wrong but is now recovered with an 8gig limit.
ez bios is installed in c:[drive 0 master] and was used to
install and partition a western digital 10gig[drive 1 master]
a second attempt to upgrade bios has left me with a non
functioning ez bios that is preventing me from using partition
magic in DOS.
my w98 will only recognise the wd 10gig as an '8gig removeable'.
attempts so far have lost all the work i had in the 10gig which
i am now
using as backup for c: plus other work; i have no other means of
backup.
any further suggestions or from anyone, [pleasant ones i hope,
i've lost a lot
of my mobility] will be gladly received and given a go.
cheers ted

TOM SAID
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:54:11 -0500
From: "T. Hunt" <ilrover@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Partitioning new hard drive
Ted-
Boot from the WD floppy and follow the prompts to where you
installed
EZ-BIOS and then disable it instead. Once that is done, you will
have to go
into the BIOS and RE detect the harddrive as its parameters have
changed.
Usually, you will have to fdisk and format new partitions and
any data that
was stored on the drive will be gone.  You should copy anything
valuable to
another drive or CD's before doing any of this.
The ONLY time you should ever use a drive overlay is if the
motherboard
will not recognize the size of the drive correctly, such as an 8
or 37GB
limit.  And there is no reason to use Partition Magic with a new
drive
either.  If you are installing Win2K or XP, just use the
built-in tools on
the CD to create partitions when you install the OS and then use
Disk
Management to handle the creation and formatting of the rest of
the drive
after the OS is installed.  If you are installing Win98, you can
use the
tools on the CD or you can make a boot floppy and fdisk and
format from
that prior to installing the OS. (It is common with Win98 to
fdisk, format
and then copy the CAB files to the harddrive and then start the
install
from there.)
The only time you need to use PM is if you have a harddrive with
existing
partitions and data and you wish to change the partition sizes
without
losing the data. (and even then you should back up everything,
just in case).
Tom

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