"Jeff Richards" wrote in message
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What did you expect to happen?

Please look at the documentation that was provided with that software.

Installing a drive overlay ENABLES access to the partitioning that it
supports. It does not require that either the boot drive or any other
drive
in the system is configured with that partitioning. If the installation
overwrote the contents of the C drive that's because you asked it to set
up
a managed partition on that drive. Partitions created while the overlay
is
active may or may not be standard DOS partitions, depending on options
chosen. However, if such partitioning does exist then the overlay enables
those partitions to be recognised as if they were standard DOS partitions,
and they are accessible to the OS.

And, BTW, FDISK will remove that special partitioning provided the overlay
is not active when FDISK is run. If the overlay is active it will trap
the
FDISK commands and either ignore them (most commonly) or convert them for
the different partition structure (eg, FDISK /Status). In some cases,
when
FDISK is run without the overlay active it will refuse to remove the
partition because it doesn't recognise the type - that's version
dependant.



Let's back up and start from the beginning...as
I am sure the OP is long gone...and this has simply become a discussion
between the two of us...
but maybe the OP will show up.


Now. Since I was able to get a good night's sleep...
I re-read your first reply and see the wisdom of it.

I was able to find several of my Maxtor, HD install floppies
and see that they have used both EZ drive or EZ bios as an overlay.

Though I believe they are pretty much the same utility,
EZ bios does give a boot screen which informs the user that EZ bios is
installed,
whereas EZ drive did not give any such message.


So I think that your reply was an excellent observation...
but I am still not 100% sure if it is right.

Had the overlay been installed and the 2nd drive had indeed been setup
from running fdisk within windows the configuration of the 2nd drive could
have been dependent up on
the overlay. I did not test that to see with my own eyes how it works.

I am going to assume (for now) you are 100% right.

Even if the OP ran fdisk and formatted the C: drive
and even if he sys'ed the C: drive=== the overlay would *still* be
installed.

I just tested that this morning to verify.

What I did was first setup the drive with EZ-Bios
I confirmed that it was installed.
I then booted directly from a floppy
ran fdisk and deleted what fdisk now saw as a non-dos partition.
recreated, rebooted, then formatted and finally sys'ed the drive.

EZ bios was still enabled and installed.

As I have mentioned previously...EZ Bios is pretty tough to get rid of.
To removed it, one must first run the EZ bios setup utility and disable it.
then exit and save... finally, re-run the setup and uninstall it.

So I am sure the OP would have recalled that.


It's been a while...but about the only other way to get rid of a drive
overlay
is to run the mfg's so called lo-level format or some other utility designed
for
"blasting" a HD.

If you have a old spare drive , give it a try and you'll see what I mean.