EZ Drive removal

[Bob W]

I have an old hard drive from my wife's computer. It is just the bare
drive. Bios sees it but not XP. Partition Magic (from boot disk) says it
cannot operate on the drive because it has EZ Drive on it. We are hoping
to recover some files on the old drive.
Any tips on accessing this drive?
Thanks
Bob

 

[Mark Adams]

I have an old hard drive from my wife's computer. It is just the bare
drive. Bios sees it but not XP. Partition Magic (from boot disk) says it
cannot operate on the drive because it has EZ Drive on it. We are hoping
to recover some files on the old drive.
Any tips on accessing this drive?
Thanks
Bob

Is this an IDE drive? If so, set the jumper to "slave" and see if Windows
can see the drive. If not, go to Disk Management and see if it is listed
there; it probably doesn't have an assigned drive letter. If this is the
case, assign it one; you should now be able to access the drive.

 

[Anteaus]

If it does have EZ-Drive then this will only work if the disk is
booted-from, since the overlay code is in the MBR.

EZ-Drive is very old, I wouldn't expect to see it on any computer in current
use.

 

[MikeS]

This link explains your problem and gives some work arounds:
http://www.data-backup-and-storage.com/disk-manager-from-maxtor.html

I doubt you will find an EZ Drive manual to download but the Maxtor product
mentioned probably uses the same removal method.

Misar

 

[smlunatick]

I have an old hard drive from my wife's computer. It is just the bare
drive. Bios sees it but not XP. Partition Magic (from boot disk) says it
cannot operate on the drive because it has EZ Drive on it. We are hoping
to recover some files on the old drive.
Any tips on accessing this drive?
Thanks
Bob

EZ Drive can be removed but all data / infos will be lost. EZ Drive
was a special application to trick the older "limited" BIOS to let the
"full capacity" be used. This was usually for "older" Windows
versions (before XP.)

Goto second-hand PC stores so as try to build a older PC and it may
work.

 

[Bob W]

I will try the Maxtor product, hope it will run from DOS.
Bob W