Help! Maxblast software is SUK

[rigmah]

Ok, i had a 40 gig maxtor 5400 rpm hd and i decided to buy another maxtor, a 40 gig 7200 rpm hd. Well the first maxtor i had, i used FDISK and FORMAT to set the partition up and it ran fine for a year.

I was installing my new maxtor hard drive and i decided to try out the maxblast software. While running the software, it kept giving me a WARNING that my first hard drive was not setup correctly. i ignored the warning because i thought the software was only going to work on the new hard drive. Once macblast was able to finish formating the new hard drive, i restarted my computer. I was able to enter windows, but whenever i tried to run a program or open a file, windows gave me an error saying that that program or file did not exist. I restarted the computer and now i cant boot off the original drive.

Then i disconnected my original HD and put my new HD as primary. I used FDISK and FORMAT to setup the new drive and isntalled win2k.

I want to know if i can set up my older HD as a slave and then try to retrieve my data from it. Is this possible? The older hard drive has like 5 partitions. Will the c: drive on my new hd and the c: drive on my older hd cause a conflict due to drive letter assignments?

HELP

 

[rigmah]

help

 

[dcdomain]

By setting up your old drive as slave, the C: assignment would no longer be valid. Under Win2k, your old drive, all 5 partitions will come after all the partitions on your new drive is assigned. That's how I always transfer my data. I just grab the master from my old computer, set it as slave and connect it to my new computer.

I think the reason, your old drive can't be read correctly is because of the EZ-Bios setup. I love Maxtors, and the Maxblast utility, but that EZ-Bios thing really screws up a lot of stuff...

So anyway, to answer your question, it will work...

 

[rigmah]

thanks alot...

Just one more thing. do you think i can salvage the sdata from my old hd? I think Ez bios must of offset a sector or something.

rigmah

 

[andrey]

EZ-BIOS is used ONLY FOR OLDER COMPUTERS where BIOS cannot support large hard drives. In your case you don't even need to use Maxblast software at all. Just FDISK and FORMAT the drive and you should be ready to go. To resolve the problem you're experiencing, try to uninstall EZ-BIOS first on both hard drives