Olin Lathrop wrote:
>> It doesn't help the BIOS at all really.  The BIOS still misidentifies
>> the drive size, but the Ontrack "virus" lives in the MBR of the drive
>> and runs as soon as the BIOS loads it.
>
> But the OP's bios doesn't see the drive *at all*.  It therefore won't
> attempt to load anything from the MBR or anywhere else on that drive.

In that case, most drives have a special jumper setting that makes the
drive appear to be a small drive with <1024 cylinders.  This gets around
the BIOS refusing to acknowledge the drives presence.

michael brown

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