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So there I was, chugging along with my circa-1996 Pentium 166MMX (with a WD 40
GB split into my C and E drives, a WD 180 GB as my D drive, with some sort of
IDE controller card to allow D to be one big drive bypassing the 167 GB limit
or whatever) and all of a sudden it decided not to reboot. I tried to reload
Win98 on top of it but it crashed partway through and now I can't get to it.

I loaded Partition Magic 8.0 onto an old 1.6 GB hard drive and tried to recover
what was my old C/E drive (the 40 GB). It said that I had two 20 GB partitions
with EZ-Drive. When I reboot, the BIOS recognizes that I have a 40 GB drive as
the slave drive but the EZ-Drive software doesn't load.

I tried loading the boot-disk version of PM but got this: "Error #89. EZ-Drive
has been detected on drive 1, but EZ-Drive is not running. If you are booting
from a floppy, remove the floppy disk and reboot. Press and hold the <CTRL> key
as your computer restarts. When prompted select <A>, then insert your boot
floppy." Well, doing that booted me into DOS and there was no <A> option as far
as I could tell. And booting up into DOS means I still can't load the EZ-Drive
to get to the hard drive.

I tried loading the EZ-Drive software onto my C drive (the 1.6 GB) but it said
that the file system didn't require it. The stuff on the WD web page regarding
EZ-Drive didn't seem to work on my setup.

When I boot into my 1.6 GB C drive with my 180 GB D drive and CD-ROM E drive,
no problems.
When I boot into my 1.6 GB C drive with my 40 GB D/E drive (which has EZ-Drive)
and CD-ROM F drive, it doesn't recognize the drive and just shows me C and the
CD as D..
When I replace the CD drive with the 40 GB drive and configure the jumpers for
single drive, it won't boot up at all.

On top of all that, my primary IDE slot on the motherboard seems to be failed.
I have my C drive plugged into the primary IDE slot on the IDE controller card,
with my CD-ROM plugged into the secondary IDE slot on the motherboard.

I think that's it - any suggestions on how to configure things so that I can
run EZ-Drive and access my 40 GB drive? Thanks for whoever can (or is willing
to) help.

Michael R. Grabois ... change $ to \"s\" wrote:
> So there I was, chugging along with my circa-1996 Pentium 166MMX (with a WD 40
> GB split into my C and E drives, a WD 180 GB as my D drive, with some sort of
> IDE controller card to allow D to be one big drive bypassing the 167 GB limit
> or whatever) and all of a sudden it decided not to reboot. I tried to reload
> Win98 on top of it but it crashed partway through and now I can't get to it.
>
> I loaded Partition Magic 8.0 onto an old 1.6 GB hard drive and tried to recover
> what was my old C/E drive (the 40 GB). It said that I had two 20 GB partitions
> with EZ-Drive. When I reboot, the BIOS recognizes that I have a 40 GB drive as
> the slave drive but the EZ-Drive software doesn't load.
>
> I tried loading the boot-disk version of PM but got this: "Error #89. EZ-Drive
> has been detected on drive 1, but EZ-Drive is not running. If you are booting
> from a floppy, remove the floppy disk and reboot. Press and hold the <CTRL> key
> as your computer restarts. When prompted select <A>, then insert your boot
> floppy." Well, doing that booted me into DOS and there was no <A> option as far
> as I could tell. And booting up into DOS means I still can't load the EZ-Drive
> to get to the hard drive.
>
> I tried loading the EZ-Drive software onto my C drive (the 1.6 GB) but it said
> that the file system didn't require it. The stuff on the WD web page regarding
> EZ-Drive didn't seem to work on my setup.
>
> When I boot into my 1.6 GB C drive with my 180 GB D drive and CD-ROM E drive,
> no problems.
> When I boot into my 1.6 GB C drive with my 40 GB D/E drive (which has EZ-Drive)
> and CD-ROM F drive, it doesn't recognize the drive and just shows me C and the
> CD as D..
> When I replace the CD drive with the 40 GB drive and configure the jumpers for
> single drive, it won't boot up at all.
>
> On top of all that, my primary IDE slot on the motherboard seems to be failed.
> I have my C drive plugged into the primary IDE slot on the IDE controller card,
> with my CD-ROM plugged into the secondary IDE slot on the motherboard.
>
> I think that's it - any suggestions on how to configure things so that I can
> run EZ-Drive and access my 40 GB drive? Thanks for whoever can (or is willing
> to) help.
>

you do *not* install EZ drive on your C: drive
it's installed on the bootsector
you need to bootup using your ez drive floppy
and from there you can install it and enable it
or disable it and uninsall it


you should only need to use it if your drive is too large fro your bios
to detect...which would probably be the case witha 40 gig drive on a p166

"michael davis" <> wrote in message news:<VfH0b.358$>...
> You could try to boot up with your EZ-drive floppy and try and re install
> your EZ-drive mbr settings which should have been backed up on that floppy.

Sounds like you're assuming that I have (or made) an EZ-drive boot
floppy. Either I didn't make one because I thought that my regular
Win98 boot floppy was enough, or I did make one but can't find it.
I'll double-check again, but if it's nowhere to be found, is there a
boot disk somewhere that I can download? (I didn't see one at
bootdisk.com).

Install Linux, problem solved.

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 08:03:13 +0000, Michael R. Grabois ... change $ to "s"
wrote:

> So there I was, chugging along with my circa-1996 Pentium 166MMX (with a WD 40
> GB split into my C and E drives, a WD 180 GB as my D drive, with some sort of
> IDE controller card to allow D to be one big drive bypassing the 167 GB limit
> or whatever) and all of a sudden it decided not to reboot. I tried to reload
> Win98 on top of it but it crashed partway through and now I can't get to it.
>
> I loaded Partition Magic 8.0 onto an old 1.6 GB hard drive and tried to recover
> what was my old C/E drive (the 40 GB). It said that I had two 20 GB partitions
> with EZ-Drive. When I reboot, the BIOS recognizes that I have a 40 GB drive as
> the slave drive but the EZ-Drive software doesn't load.
>
> I tried loading the boot-disk version of PM but got this: "Error #89. EZ-Drive
> has been detected on drive 1, but EZ-Drive is not running. If you are booting
> from a floppy, remove the floppy disk and reboot. Press and hold the <CTRL> key
> as your computer restarts. When prompted select <A>, then insert your boot
> floppy." Well, doing that booted me into DOS and there was no <A> option as far
> as I could tell. And booting up into DOS means I still can't load the EZ-Drive
> to get to the hard drive.
>
> I tried loading the EZ-Drive software onto my C drive (the 1.6 GB) but it said
> that the file system didn't require it. The stuff on the WD web page regarding
> EZ-Drive didn't seem to work on my setup.
>
> When I boot into my 1.6 GB C drive with my 180 GB D drive and CD-ROM E drive,
> no problems.
> When I boot into my 1.6 GB C drive with my 40 GB D/E drive (which has EZ-Drive)
> and CD-ROM F drive, it doesn't recognize the drive and just shows me C and the
> CD as D..
> When I replace the CD drive with the 40 GB drive and configure the jumpers for
> single drive, it won't boot up at all.
>
> On top of all that, my primary IDE slot on the motherboard seems to be failed.
> I have my C drive plugged into the primary IDE slot on the IDE controller card,
> with my CD-ROM plugged into the secondary IDE slot on the motherboard.
>
> I think that's it - any suggestions on how to configure things so that I can
> run EZ-Drive and access my 40 GB drive? Thanks for whoever can (or is willing
> to) help.