Re: Help required

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Steve Tickle wrote:

> Now the bad news :(
> The drive was originally configured when it hung off an old m/b which
> didn't have LBA etc and couldn't see all the drive. EZ-Drive fixed that and
> I thought that there would be 3 distinct partitions within EZ-Drive, of
> which I could delete one. Trouble is, it appears as one partition. If I
> look at it with DOS fdisk it sees one 2GB partition and some unpartitioned
> space.
> I don't know what to do next - I could remove EZ-Drive and get DOS fdisk to
> enable large disk access but I'm in mortal fear of stomping over the whole
> disk :(

Firstly, you won't stomp over anything by just looking at it. Enabling
large disks in fdisk should enable you to see the whole drive, and if it
just sees garbage you should be able to go back to how it was. However, on
second thoughts, take that advice with a pinch of salt ;) To be honest,
I'm not quite sure how EZ-Drive does things. I would *imagine* it takes
over some BIOS calls to pretend there's an LBA drive there, but who knows.
Hae you tried altering the HD settings in the BIOS? Try setting it to LBA,
if it reads the disk you don't need EZ-Drive..

> BTW on closer inspection the drive is 5GB with 2x2GB and 1x1GB partitions
> and I'll be installing Mandrake 6.0 (haven't got anything later)

Plenty of room, and I have Mandrake 6.0 (albeit heavily patched ;) on my
desktop ..

Cheers,

Alex.

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