Floppy Boot Protection - Western Digital WD Caviar Installation Manual

Floppy Boot Protection

EZ-BIOS and your system BIOS use different translation
methods to access your hard drive. Your system BIOS cannot
correctly access partitions created by EZ-BIOS. If you do not
follow the correct procedures for booting to floppy disk,
EZ-BIOS will not load and your system BIOS will incorrectly
access your hard drive, resulting in possible data loss. Enabling
floppy boot protection prevents access to your hard drives if
you incorrectly boot to floppy disk.
Floppy boot protection enabled: Floppy boot protection is
automatically enabled when you use EZ-Drive to set up your
hard drive. DOS 5.0 and above, Windows 3.1x, Windows for
Workgroups 3.11, and Windows 95 work with floppy boot
protection enabled. When you boot to floppy disk, follow the
instructions in Booting from Floppy Disk on page 23 to ensure
that EZ-BIOS loads. If you do not follow these instructions,
EZ-BIOS will not load and your hard drive will be inaccessible.
Floppy boot protection disabled: Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0
and OS/2 Warp 3.0 and 4.0 DO NOT support floppy boot
protection. If using one of these operating systems, you have
two options:
1. Disable floppy boot protection.
2. Upgrade your system BIOS to support the full capacity of
your hard drive so that you do not need to use EZ-Drive.
If you disable floppy boot protection, follow the instructions in
Booting from Floppy Disk to ensure that EZ-BIOS loads when
you boot to floppy disk. If you do not follow these instructions,
EZ-BIOS will not load, and your system BIOS will incorrectly
access your hard drive.
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