[linux-help] Re: erasing an IDE hard drive

[Jeff Vian <jvian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If EZDRIVE is not required, you can boot with a floppy so ezdrive is not
loaded into memory
then if using dos/windoze      ' fdisk /mbr'   will remove the ezdrive from
the boot sector.

If ezdrive was initially loaded in memory when you installed Linux you will
probably have to reinstall Linux.


----- Original Message -----
From: Craig Terhune <cterhune@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 1:10 PM
Subject: [linux-help] Re: erasing an IDE hard drive


>
> Try booting a dos boot disk, run fdisk delete the partitions and make
> one drive it will be smaller than what it really is. Then boot the linux
> boot disk and start the setup. If I'm not mistaken you cannot use
> ezdrive or any other bios translating software. Sorry. Try getting a
> smaller drive to run linux on ;)
> Michael Holmes wrote:
> >
> > I used the EZ drive with the western digital hard drive, Now I cannot
get linux to read the hard drive.  I have removed the ez drive from it, but
linux comes back with "no available resources"  or read error on hda boot
sector.  Windows has no problem reading this.  I want to wipe the drive back
to new condition
> >
> > Mike
> >
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