pochu_mitu

I have two hard drives - one 20GB Maxtor and one 130GB WD installed on my machine. When I enter the BIOS, it shows the maxtor drive as drive1 and WD drive as drive 0. The data cable that runs inside the PC first goes to the mactor drive and then to the WD drive. However, IBM product recovery utility shows the maxtor as drive 0 and WD as drive 1 (opposite to what BIOS says). Is there a way to rectify this?

A special-purpose disk-eraser. Here's one: http://killdisk.com/ Thanks LLXX! It worked. After erasing the EZ drive stuff, I was able to install XP from the recovery CD and now can use both the disks.

Did you buy this computer brand new or was it a used computer when you got it? The reason I ask is that IBM never sold a NetVista 2292 - *** with Windows XP Professional They only sold this computer with XP Home or earlier on them. You can go here and see the Software Numbers of thier recovery CD's -- http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss...=MIGR-39316#xph Just look at your cd and see if it matches any of these. This was a brand new computer with Windows XP Home Edition. I used all the utilities that came with the recovery CD and the OnTrack CD (that came with the WD drive) to erase both the drives. They however, seem to be leaving the EZ-drive stuff. Is there any other software that can get rid of that?

What type/model of computer is it that you are having this trouble with? IBM NetVista 2292 The original drive was by Maxtor, the new drive is Western Digital WDC1600JB

The recovery CD, I was told, does contain Windows XP. The problem seems to be something else. Is EZ-drive someway preventing the recovery CD from running properly?

I had Windows XP on a 20GB (Maxtor) hard disk. While trying to add another hard drive of 160GB (Western Digital) capacity, I ran OnTrack (came with Western Digital) and it mistakenly overwrote the boot partition of the original disk. It also damaged the recovery software on the disk. Now when I try to run the recovery program from the recovery CD, it starts and then gives the error "The disk has EZ-Drive on it. But it's corrupted". After acknowledging, it shows "Error # 87. Failed to initialize engine". Then it runs for a couple of seconds and asks for the the second CD. The second CD does not run for even 5 seconds and then says " Take any CD or Floppy out and press enter for rebooting. The recovery process will continue after restart". After rebooting it will say "No Operating system found. Press F1 to go through the boot sequence again". I used the utilities that came with Western Digital CD and erased both the disks to get rid of anything that could have been on them. However, each time I am getting the same problem.