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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

We have a 1.9G drive (with which I hope to replace the 1.2G which just 
died), Maxtor, with Dynamic Disk Overlay, which is something like 
EZ-DRIVE, lets an older BIOS access a larger disk.

This one only works if you boot from hard drive, then it offers partway 
through boot to let you press space bar to boot from floppy disk.

I read about this and these things are hard to remove, and can interfere 
with the use of floppy boot disks and also 'alternative' OS-es, and you 
cannot remove them with fdisk or format.

I got EZ-DRIVE off with a low-level format but this won't low-level format 
(on the same computer).  The computer BIOS auto-detected the drive but the 
utility said 'hard disk install failure'.

I am told to use the removal tool that came with the drive - is it 
somewhere on the drive?

Can I somehow wipe out this monster with dd from BL instead?  Where might 
the DDO be located and can I just write zeros over that part?  Is the MBR 
the first 1024 bytes, or half that?  Could I damage anything important, 
irretrievably, by trying dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=1?

Or try bs=512 first?  I don't care if Win98 gets wiped off the drive.

I have an 800 number for Ontrack but they will probably say to use Windows 
and the tool that came with the software for the drive.

The drive crashed while I was trying to copy to it a kernel which I 
compiled for a 486 with imm.o support.

Sindi