Removing EZ-BIOS

[ViRaL1]

I'm working on an old Packard Hell PC with a 1.2GB hard drive in it. It also had a 4.3 but I removed that. It has EZ-BIOS installed and it seems to be screwing up my fresh Win98 install. Any tips on getting rid of it. I'd think the computer (it's a P133) should be able to handle a 1.2GB drive on its own.

TIA

[ViRaL1]

NM, found it. I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier.

FDISK /MBR

[stiltman]

You can also do

fdisk /mbr .... lower case

[gmatov]

Are you sure?

I think to remove EZBIOS you have to insert and boot to the EZBIOS disk and select "Remove" or "Uninstall" EZBIOS. It writes to BIOS, not to the drive.

From way back when I screwed up and used it, for over 32 gig (with a 45 gig drive), about 5 years ago, and the tech told me you cannot read the drive without EZBIOS, I assumed you could not do an fdisk /mbr. That ain't gonna change the parameters to what the drive maker says it should be. ie, Cylinders, Heads, Sectors, etc.

Cheers,

George

[ViRaL1]

Well, it worked. Granted, it was only a 1.2GB drive. I'm not even sure why it had EZ-BIOS on there in the first place, but it was keeping the OS from loading. I was getting an error asking for the location of COMMAND.COM. fdisk /mbr did the trick. Had it been a drive that was too large for the BIOS that probably wouldn't have helped.

[stiltman]

Yep, just do a search on "int 13 mbr"

I remember that one from an interview i did about 10 years ago...missed it