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  #1  
Old December 31st 04, 01:25 AM
SS
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Default ez-bios and hard drives

hello, folks =)

i have a somewhat complicated situation which someone perhaps can help me
with

in the near future i will be purchasing a new computer. i currently have an
older model computer which is serving the purpose fine for me, but soon will
(hopefully) be a backup computer.

i have two hard drives on my system: a 13GB and a 2GB. The 13GB is the
master C: and the 2GB is the slave D:. my bios is fairly old, so it has an
8GB limitation on it (i contacted the manufacturer of my bios to see if they
have an upgrade and if it addresses larger disk drives). anyway, i installed
ez-bios (from western digital) and it allowed full access to both drives
with no problem.

here's my issue: recently, my floppy drive went kaplooey (i tried a new
drive, new connection, etc., with no luck, so i assume it's a bad controller
on the motherboard). at some point i'd like to repartition my drives and
reinstall windows 98 on it once it is my secondary computer. however ... the
floppy drive does not work, which is causing issues.

i really don't use the floppy for anything but would need it to boot up and
run diagnostics and/or start from scratch. so, i'm trying to figure out a
way to be able to get away without using my floppy at all and boot from the
cd drive (if necessary).

even though my bios is old, it does allow booting from a cd. however, since
my master hard drive uses ez-bios, booting from the cd drive does not work
(for grins, i tried booting through ez-bios with a cd in the drive to see if
it might think the cd drive was A:, but it didn't work, lol).

my question(s) is this: is there some way to start from scratch on my system
without having access to the floppy drive?

what i thought might work in theory is switching the 2GB as the master and
the 13GB as the slave. that way, ez-bios would not be needed to recognize my
master, and this would allow the cd drive to be bootable, no? in other
words, there would be no need to see the slave drive while booting, so since
the master drive would not need ez-bios, i could boot directly off the cd.

is any of this possible, and if so, how would i do it?

to sum things up, i want to be able to reformat and set up my computer
without using the floppy drive and having ez-bios set up for the large drive
(moved to the slave).

thank you!
scott


  #2  
Old December 31st 04, 04:40 AM
Jeff Richards
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EZ-BIOS will not interfere with booting to CD. If you have a proper
bootable CD and if the BIOS supports the option, just make the change to
BIOS settings, insert the CD, and reboot. Of course, you wont be able to
read the C: drive. If you have the right sort of utilities then you could
erase and rebuild it from DOS, but it seems that you'll have to reinstall
EZ-BIOS in order to use more than 8Gb, and you're right back where you
started.

If you want to re-install W98 you can simply delete the existing
installation and re-install. Just skip the part about partitioning and
re-formatting. Changing the drives around won't accomplish anything, as
EZ-BIOS will still need to be active in order to see the 13Gb drive, whether
it's master or slave, and you've already demonstrated that you can't boot
from CD and have EZ-BIOS active.

By far the simplest solution is to buy a new floppy drive. Another option
is to limit the 13Gb drive to 8Gb and don't install EZ-BIOS.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"SS" wrote in message
...
hello, folks =)

i have a somewhat complicated situation which someone perhaps can help me
with

in the near future i will be purchasing a new computer. i currently have
an
older model computer which is serving the purpose fine for me, but soon
will
(hopefully) be a backup computer.

i have two hard drives on my system: a 13GB and a 2GB. The 13GB is the
master C: and the 2GB is the slave D:. my bios is fairly old, so it has an
8GB limitation on it (i contacted the manufacturer of my bios to see if
they
have an upgrade and if it addresses larger disk drives). anyway, i
installed
ez-bios (from western digital) and it allowed full access to both drives
with no problem.

here's my issue: recently, my floppy drive went kaplooey (i tried a new
drive, new connection, etc., with no luck, so i assume it's a bad
controller
on the motherboard). at some point i'd like to repartition my drives and
reinstall windows 98 on it once it is my secondary computer. however ...
the
floppy drive does not work, which is causing issues.

i really don't use the floppy for anything but would need it to boot up
and
run diagnostics and/or start from scratch. so, i'm trying to figure out a
way to be able to get away without using my floppy at all and boot from
the
cd drive (if necessary).

even though my bios is old, it does allow booting from a cd. however,
since
my master hard drive uses ez-bios, booting from the cd drive does not work
(for grins, i tried booting through ez-bios with a cd in the drive to see
if
it might think the cd drive was A:, but it didn't work, lol).

my question(s) is this: is there some way to start from scratch on my
system
without having access to the floppy drive?

what i thought might work in theory is switching the 2GB as the master and
the 13GB as the slave. that way, ez-bios would not be needed to recognize
my
master, and this would allow the cd drive to be bootable, no? in other
words, there would be no need to see the slave drive while booting, so
since
the master drive would not need ez-bios, i could boot directly off the cd.

is any of this possible, and if so, how would i do it?

to sum things up, i want to be able to reformat and set up my computer
without using the floppy drive and having ez-bios set up for the large
drive
(moved to the slave).

thank you!
scott




  #3  
Old December 31st 04, 09:02 AM
Hugh Candlin
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"SS" wrote in message
...

i have a somewhat complicated situation which someone perhaps can help me
with

here's my issue: recently, my floppy drive went kaplooey (i tried a new
drive, new connection, etc., with no luck, so i assume it's a bad

controller
on the motherboard


I seriously doubt that. I would first ask "Are you POSITIVE that you
connected the floppy drive cable properly, at both ends?

Red stripe to Pin #1 on the motherboard.
Red stripe to Pin #1 on the drive.
The cable twist closest to the drive,
not to the motherboard?
The connectors properly seated?
No chance of 2 bad cables in a row?

If you eliminate all of those things,
then I would just pop around to my local
corner mom-and-pop
bar/grill/car wash/delicatessen and computer repair shop,
and buy an el cheapo brand IO card.

Hook the floppy to that and you should be good to go.


  #4  
Old December 31st 04, 02:45 PM
Lil' Dave
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You indicated that you CANNOT boot from a floppy or CD. Then you need some
other boot device as fdisk and format will not work on a partition that it
sources from.
"SS" wrote in message
...
hello, folks =)

i have a somewhat complicated situation which someone perhaps can help me
with

in the near future i will be purchasing a new computer. i currently have

an
older model computer which is serving the purpose fine for me, but soon

will
(hopefully) be a backup computer.

i have two hard drives on my system: a 13GB and a 2GB. The 13GB is the
master C: and the 2GB is the slave D:. my bios is fairly old, so it has an
8GB limitation on it (i contacted the manufacturer of my bios to see if

they
have an upgrade and if it addresses larger disk drives). anyway, i

installed
ez-bios (from western digital) and it allowed full access to both drives
with no problem.

here's my issue: recently, my floppy drive went kaplooey (i tried a new
drive, new connection, etc., with no luck, so i assume it's a bad

controller
on the motherboard). at some point i'd like to repartition my drives and
reinstall windows 98 on it once it is my secondary computer. however ...

the
floppy drive does not work, which is causing issues.

i really don't use the floppy for anything but would need it to boot up

and
run diagnostics and/or start from scratch. so, i'm trying to figure out a
way to be able to get away without using my floppy at all and boot from

the
cd drive (if necessary).

even though my bios is old, it does allow booting from a cd. however,

since
my master hard drive uses ez-bios, booting from the cd drive does not work
(for grins, i tried booting through ez-bios with a cd in the drive to see

if
it might think the cd drive was A:, but it didn't work, lol).

my question(s) is this: is there some way to start from scratch on my

system
without having access to the floppy drive?

what i thought might work in theory is switching the 2GB as the master and
the 13GB as the slave. that way, ez-bios would not be needed to recognize

my
master, and this would allow the cd drive to be bootable, no? in other
words, there would be no need to see the slave drive while booting, so

since
the master drive would not need ez-bios, i could boot directly off the cd.

is any of this possible, and if so, how would i do it?

to sum things up, i want to be able to reformat and set up my computer
without using the floppy drive and having ez-bios set up for the large

drive
(moved to the slave).

thank you!
scott




  #5  
Old December 31st 04, 08:20 PM
SS
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Howdy Thanks for writing!

Since my floppy does not function right now, I can't boot off of that. I can
boot off of a CD, but since EZ-BIOS is installed, when I boot off a CD it
doesn't allow the EZ-BIOS to load first, so I can only see my slave drive.


"Lil' Dave" wrote in message
...
You indicated that you CANNOT boot from a floppy or CD. Then you need

some
other boot device as fdisk and format will not work on a partition that it
sources from.
"SS" wrote in message
...
hello, folks =)

i have a somewhat complicated situation which someone perhaps can help

me
with

in the near future i will be purchasing a new computer. i currently have

an
older model computer which is serving the purpose fine for me, but soon

will
(hopefully) be a backup computer.

i have two hard drives on my system: a 13GB and a 2GB. The 13GB is the
master C: and the 2GB is the slave D:. my bios is fairly old, so it has

an
8GB limitation on it (i contacted the manufacturer of my bios to see if

they
have an upgrade and if it addresses larger disk drives). anyway, i

installed
ez-bios (from western digital) and it allowed full access to both drives
with no problem.

here's my issue: recently, my floppy drive went kaplooey (i tried a new
drive, new connection, etc., with no luck, so i assume it's a bad

controller
on the motherboard). at some point i'd like to repartition my drives and
reinstall windows 98 on it once it is my secondary computer. however ...

the
floppy drive does not work, which is causing issues.

i really don't use the floppy for anything but would need it to boot up

and
run diagnostics and/or start from scratch. so, i'm trying to figure out

a
way to be able to get away without using my floppy at all and boot from

the
cd drive (if necessary).

even though my bios is old, it does allow booting from a cd. however,

since
my master hard drive uses ez-bios, booting from the cd drive does not

work
(for grins, i tried booting through ez-bios with a cd in the drive to

see
if
it might think the cd drive was A:, but it didn't work, lol).

my question(s) is this: is there some way to start from scratch on my

system
without having access to the floppy drive?

what i thought might work in theory is switching the 2GB as the master

and
the 13GB as the slave. that way, ez-bios would not be needed to

recognize
my
master, and this would allow the cd drive to be bootable, no? in other
words, there would be no need to see the slave drive while booting, so

since
the master drive would not need ez-bios, i could boot directly off the

cd.

is any of this possible, and if so, how would i do it?

to sum things up, i want to be able to reformat and set up my computer
without using the floppy drive and having ez-bios set up for the large

drive
(moved to the slave).

thank you!
scott






  #6  
Old December 31st 04, 08:23 PM
SS
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Howdy! Thanks for writing

"Hugh Candlin" wrote in message
...

"SS" wrote in message
...

i have a somewhat complicated situation which someone perhaps can help

me
with

here's my issue: recently, my floppy drive went kaplooey (i tried a new
drive, new connection, etc., with no luck, so i assume it's a bad

controller
on the motherboard


I seriously doubt that. I would first ask "Are you POSITIVE that you
connected the floppy drive cable properly, at both ends?

Red stripe to Pin #1 on the motherboard.
Red stripe to Pin #1 on the drive.
The cable twist closest to the drive,
not to the motherboard?
The connectors properly seated?
No chance of 2 bad cables in a row?


I tried various connections with no luck. The new cable I got is in fact a
new cable, so I assume it's ok. The weird thing is that my original floppy
drive started not reading disks properly. So, I got a cheapy floppy drive
off of eBay and it worked fine for about 2 days. Then, it acted just like
the other one. It can format a disk, and then soon after it can't read that
disk or any other. Not a clue what the problem could be.

If you eliminate all of those things,
then I would just pop around to my local
corner mom-and-pop
bar/grill/car wash/delicatessen and computer repair shop,
and buy an el cheapo brand IO card.

Hook the floppy to that and you should be good to go.


I may try that =)


  #7  
Old December 31st 04, 08:26 PM
SS
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Howdy! Thanks for writing

"Jeff Richards" wrote in message
...
EZ-BIOS will not interfere with booting to CD. If you have a proper
bootable CD and if the BIOS supports the option, just make the change to
BIOS settings, insert the CD, and reboot. Of course, you wont be able to
read the C: drive. If you have the right sort of utilities then you could
erase and rebuild it from DOS, but it seems that you'll have to reinstall
EZ-BIOS in order to use more than 8Gb, and you're right back where you
started.


I can boot to a CD, but when I do so I cannot access my main C: drive, as
you stated.

If you want to re-install W98 you can simply delete the existing
installation and re-install. Just skip the part about partitioning and
re-formatting. Changing the drives around won't accomplish anything, as
EZ-BIOS will still need to be active in order to see the 13Gb drive,

whether
it's master or slave, and you've already demonstrated that you can't boot
from CD and have EZ-BIOS active.


I thought that might be the best thing. My concern is what drive Windows
would isntall to, and how that would work. By suggesting swapping the
drives, I thought that making the drive that does not need EZ-BIOS the
master, so I could install Windows to that drive (I would not need access to
the other drive doing it this way, correct?) Then I could proceed as normal.

By far the simplest solution is to buy a new floppy drive. Another option
is to limit the 13Gb drive to 8Gb and don't install EZ-BIOS.


I tried various connections and a new floppy drive with no luck. The new
cable I got is in fact a new cable, so I assume it's ok. The weird thing is
that my original floppy drive started not reading disks properly. So, I got
a cheapy floppy drive off of eBay and it worked fine for about 2 days. Then,
it acted just like the other one. It can format a disk, and then soon after
it can't read that disk or any other. Not a clue what the problem could be.


--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"SS" wrote in message
...
hello, folks =)

i have a somewhat complicated situation which someone perhaps can help

me
with

in the near future i will be purchasing a new computer. i currently have
an
older model computer which is serving the purpose fine for me, but soon
will
(hopefully) be a backup computer.

i have two hard drives on my system: a 13GB and a 2GB. The 13GB is the
master C: and the 2GB is the slave D:. my bios is fairly old, so it has

an
8GB limitation on it (i contacted the manufacturer of my bios to see if
they
have an upgrade and if it addresses larger disk drives). anyway, i
installed
ez-bios (from western digital) and it allowed full access to both drives
with no problem.

here's my issue: recently, my floppy drive went kaplooey (i tried a new
drive, new connection, etc., with no luck, so i assume it's a bad
controller
on the motherboard). at some point i'd like to repartition my drives and
reinstall windows 98 on it once it is my secondary computer. however ...
the
floppy drive does not work, which is causing issues.

i really don't use the floppy for anything but would need it to boot up
and
run diagnostics and/or start from scratch. so, i'm trying to figure out

a
way to be able to get away without using my floppy at all and boot from
the
cd drive (if necessary).

even though my bios is old, it does allow booting from a cd. however,
since
my master hard drive uses ez-bios, booting from the cd drive does not

work
(for grins, i tried booting through ez-bios with a cd in the drive to

see
if
it might think the cd drive was A:, but it didn't work, lol).

my question(s) is this: is there some way to start from scratch on my
system
without having access to the floppy drive?

what i thought might work in theory is switching the 2GB as the master

and
the 13GB as the slave. that way, ez-bios would not be needed to

recognize
my
master, and this would allow the cd drive to be bootable, no? in other
words, there would be no need to see the slave drive while booting, so
since
the master drive would not need ez-bios, i could boot directly off the

cd.

is any of this possible, and if so, how would i do it?

to sum things up, i want to be able to reformat and set up my computer
without using the floppy drive and having ez-bios set up for the large
drive
(moved to the slave).

thank you!
scott






  #8  
Old January 1st 05, 12:52 AM
Jeff Richards
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If you don't re-partition and don't re-format then you will still be booting
to the 13Gb drive and Windows will install by default to that drive.

You could set the 2Gb drive as the master and install Windows, but without a
floppy you could never install EZ-BIOS to that drive, so you could never get
access to the 13Gb drive.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"SS" wrote in message
m...
Howdy! Thanks for writing

"Jeff Richards" wrote in message
...
EZ-BIOS will not interfere with booting to CD. If you have a proper
bootable CD and if the BIOS supports the option, just make the change to
BIOS settings, insert the CD, and reboot. Of course, you wont be able to
read the C: drive. If you have the right sort of utilities then you could
erase and rebuild it from DOS, but it seems that you'll have to reinstall
EZ-BIOS in order to use more than 8Gb, and you're right back where you
started.


I can boot to a CD, but when I do so I cannot access my main C: drive, as
you stated.

If you want to re-install W98 you can simply delete the existing
installation and re-install. Just skip the part about partitioning and
re-formatting. Changing the drives around won't accomplish anything, as
EZ-BIOS will still need to be active in order to see the 13Gb drive,

whether
it's master or slave, and you've already demonstrated that you can't boot
from CD and have EZ-BIOS active.


I thought that might be the best thing. My concern is what drive Windows
would isntall to, and how that would work. By suggesting swapping the
drives, I thought that making the drive that does not need EZ-BIOS the
master, so I could install Windows to that drive (I would not need access
to
the other drive doing it this way, correct?) Then I could proceed as
normal.

By far the simplest solution is to buy a new floppy drive. Another
option
is to limit the 13Gb drive to 8Gb and don't install EZ-BIOS.


I tried various connections and a new floppy drive with no luck. The new
cable I got is in fact a new cable, so I assume it's ok. The weird thing
is
that my original floppy drive started not reading disks properly. So, I
got
a cheapy floppy drive off of eBay and it worked fine for about 2 days.
Then,
it acted just like the other one. It can format a disk, and then soon
after
it can't read that disk or any other. Not a clue what the problem could
be.


--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"SS" wrote in message
...
hello, folks =)

i have a somewhat complicated situation which someone perhaps can help

me
with

in the near future i will be purchasing a new computer. i currently
have
an
older model computer which is serving the purpose fine for me, but soon
will
(hopefully) be a backup computer.

i have two hard drives on my system: a 13GB and a 2GB. The 13GB is the
master C: and the 2GB is the slave D:. my bios is fairly old, so it has

an
8GB limitation on it (i contacted the manufacturer of my bios to see if
they
have an upgrade and if it addresses larger disk drives). anyway, i
installed
ez-bios (from western digital) and it allowed full access to both
drives
with no problem.

here's my issue: recently, my floppy drive went kaplooey (i tried a new
drive, new connection, etc., with no luck, so i assume it's a bad
controller
on the motherboard). at some point i'd like to repartition my drives
and
reinstall windows 98 on it once it is my secondary computer. however
...
the
floppy drive does not work, which is causing issues.

i really don't use the floppy for anything but would need it to boot up
and
run diagnostics and/or start from scratch. so, i'm trying to figure out

a
way to be able to get away without using my floppy at all and boot from
the
cd drive (if necessary).

even though my bios is old, it does allow booting from a cd. however,
since
my master hard drive uses ez-bios, booting from the cd drive does not

work
(for grins, i tried booting through ez-bios with a cd in the drive to

see
if
it might think the cd drive was A:, but it didn't work, lol).

my question(s) is this: is there some way to start from scratch on my
system
without having access to the floppy drive?

what i thought might work in theory is switching the 2GB as the master

and
the 13GB as the slave. that way, ez-bios would not be needed to

recognize
my
master, and this would allow the cd drive to be bootable, no? in other
words, there would be no need to see the slave drive while booting, so
since
the master drive would not need ez-bios, i could boot directly off the

cd.

is any of this possible, and if so, how would i do it?

to sum things up, i want to be able to reformat and set up my computer
without using the floppy drive and having ez-bios set up for the large
drive
(moved to the slave).

thank you!
scott








  #9  
Old January 2nd 05, 11:11 AM
cquirke (MVP Win9x)
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:25:00 GMT, "SS" wrote:

in the near future i will be purchasing a new computer. i currently have an
older model computer which is serving the purpose fine for me, but soon will
(hopefully) be a backup computer.


i have two hard drives on my system: a 13GB and a 2GB. The 13GB is the
master C: and the 2GB is the slave D:. my bios is fairly old, so it has an
8GB limitation on it (i contacted the manufacturer of my bios to see if they
have an upgrade and if it addresses larger disk drives). anyway, i installed
ez-bios (from western digital) and it allowed full access to both drives


I've wrestled with EZBIOS (or was it EZIDE?) and it's a bitch. Sorry,
bitches everywhere, to insult y'all; it was worse than a bitch!

with no problem.


As long as you don't try to boot directly off HD. Also, if you were
to drop that HD into the new PC, it wouldn't see the volumes; FDisk
would show these has having the "correct" size but on non-DOS type.

EZBIOS boots first and then offers you to press a key to boot off
diskette. That's informal; any boot code malware will already have
run from the HD in this scenario. In practice, many boot code malware
will clobber EZBIOS and leave your data in limbo.

EZBIOS = Difficult Troubleshooting.

here's my issue: recently, my floppy drive went kaplooey (i tried a new
drive, new connection, etc., with no luck, so i assume it's a bad controller
on the motherboard). at some point i'd like to repartition my drives and
reinstall windows 98 on it once it is my secondary computer. however ... the
floppy drive does not work, which is causing issues.


Yup. Get another.

i really don't use the floppy for anything


It's your bootability lifeboat, especially on PCs too old to support
HDs over 8G (what chance bootable USB stick support?)

even though my bios is old, it does allow booting from a cd. however, since
my master hard drive uses ez-bios, booting from the cd drive does not work


Quite. And THAT is your real crisis.

my question(s) is this: is there some way to start from scratch on my system
without having access to the floppy drive?


With one partition, you may be able to fix this via Plan A:

Check C: via Scandisk, make sure no errors to start with
Boot into DOS mode via 1.44M or whatever
Use DiskEdit or other raw sector editing tool
Save copy of CHS 0,0,1 (the Master Boot Record)
Save copy of CHS 0,0,2 (EZBIOS's "MBR")

At this point, eyeball these two sectors, or copies thereof.

Expect to see CHS 0,0,1's partition table showing one partition of the
right size, but wrong type (i.e. a "non-DOS" type unique to EZBIOS).

Expect to see CHS 0,0,2's partition table looking exactly the same as
above, except the partition type is correct.

If any of the above expectations do not hold, DO NOT CONTINUE.

Write CHS 0,0,2 over CHS 0,0,1
Reboot off HD and attempt DOS mode via F8
Scandisk; don't fix anything, there should be no errors
If errors, undo by writing old CHS 0,0,1 back in place

I found this method recovered the primary partition so that it could
be seen from other PCs or via a true diskette boot, but did NOT
recover any logical volumes within an extended partition.


Else, Plan B:

Drop 2nd HD into system
De-lamer Explorer to show all files, extensions etc.
Copy everything off C: to the extra HD
Repeat for any other volumes on the old HD
Swap HDs, attempt boot off new HD that has no EZBIOS
If works, and all files OK, etc. then wipe and rebuild old HD
Swap HDs back again; if OK, your quest is done


If your BIOS is still too lame to see 8G, live with it - i.e. use
larger HDs as if they were 8G. Expect an unrelated problem of 32G
to cause HDs 32G to hard-lock the system when detected.

Some old PCs that can't see 8G are paradoxically OK for 32G.

All will likely fail 137G.

what i thought might work in theory is switching the 2GB as the master and
the 13GB as the slave. that way, ez-bios would not be needed to recognize my
master, and this would allow the cd drive to be bootable, no?


EZBIOS is a face-hugger. No man cometh unto the HD but by EZBIOS's
crappy code. It's a dependency as harsh as being infected with an
encrypting boot virus; your data lives only as long as EZBIOS lives.

One MBR infection, bad av cleanup, of FDisk /MBR, and it's all over.



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Old January 5th 05, 12:16 AM
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There is information on creating a boot floppy he
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php??%20print("p_sid=$p_sid&p_lva=$p_lv a&p_li=$p_li")%20?&p_faqid=1363&p_created=1045110 998

If you can image that floppy to a bootable CD then you will be able to use
the CD to boot with EZ-BIOS support. I have no idea whether or not this
sort of imaging is possible. I suspect any procedure that creates a bootable
CD will create it's own boot record, eliminating the critical component of
the EZ-BIOS bootable floppy.
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hmm, what do you mean by "with ez-bios" access? i can create a bootable cd
but either:

1) it boots off the cd before loading ez-bios, thus not allowing me to see
my master drive, or
2) ez-bios loads, and does not give me the option to boot off the cd

so either way it won't work?



 




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