Hi Jon, -----Original Message----- From: Jon Pennington [SMTP:jpennington@atipa.com]

Hi, everybody!

I was hoping that somebody could tell me if it's possible or not (and hopefully how to) remove EZBios from a disk. Though not a Linux-specific issue, I was working on a project for my in-laws last week that involved a hard disk upgrade. The disk cloning software that was included with the new hd installed EZBios without so much as asking me first, and I'm kind of upset about it :/.

I went through this not too long ago so I know exactly what you mean, except my problem was with OnTrack (I think). I assume they are similiar enough, but... YMMV If you have the install disk for it, there should be a utility to uninstall. I did not have this option and I don't know what will happen to your partition table if you use it since part of the software sometimes lives there. Here's what I did. 1.) Boot the SuSE rescue system and use fdisk to get the partition table listing (remember to make a hard copy). 2.) Make a backup copy of the boot record and partition table to a floppy. IIRC the incantation I used was # dd if=/dev/hda of=/floppy/mbr.img bs=512 (or bs=32768 for the whole cylinder, not certain it was a while ago, SuSE 6.0) 3.) White knuckle time! Zero the mbr # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 4.) Recreate partition table from hard copy 5.) You can now install lilo or from a dos floppy do fdisk /mbr If it doesn't work, you can always restore from the mbr.img or try finding the partition boundaries with Norton's disk editor (here is a link that was posted previously on the list). http://www.datarescue.com/partition.htm Good luck Jon, Tim -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/