Dynamic Drive Overlay?

[joker_927]

I gota laptop for free, but the HD was bad. Well, it was under warrenty so I just called up Compaq, sent it to them, and they put in a new HD taht was twice the size!

COOL! It's a 40GB.

Now, obviously it was shipped to me withut any OS on it. So I popped in my Windows XP disk, booted from it, and began the 1st steps to installing. Once it formatted the HD, copied some files, and rebooted, I get this screen that says

Starting ONTRACK
Dynamic Drive Overlay V9.45
Press Spacebar to boot from diskettte...

and a flashing line...

I don't want to boot from a diskette! I want it to boot from the HD which now has the WinXP setup files on it. If I press spacebar, it access the floppy drive ( which doesn't have any disks in it) and tells me the drive is empty and put a floppy in.

I have tried redoing the windows Installation/format 3 times and it doesn't change.

What is this evil program that won't let me boot my computer?

[John Prophet]

what if you just dont press the spacebar?

[joker_927]

I have let it sit there for 1/2 hour and nothing...

[Mr. NoOne]

Download the software from the hard drive manufacturer.
(If it's maxtor is called MaxBlast) they have an option that allows to remove the Dynamic Drive Overlay.....after that reinstall WinXP

[golfcart]

I want it to boot from the HD which now has the WinXP setup files on it.

If I understand you correctly, it sounds like you just copied an XP disk to the hard drive. That's not enough to make it bootable. You will either need to boot from cd or create a set of boot floppies using the utility(sorry I forgot the name) on the XP disk.

[joker_927]

It's a toshiba drive.

[joker_927]

I do have a bootable cd and when it boots I get the install screen and it formats and eveything, then it COPIES the windows setup files onto the HD, then it reboots.

[Chuckiechan]

Can you go into BIOS and take the Floppy out of the boot sequence?

[joker_927]

Tried that. The computer tried to bootfrom the floppy before doing anything esle, then tried the CD rom, then runs this ONTRACK program.

[joker_927]

I got the "DiscWizard Starter Edition" from this website: http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...s/discwiz.html

It was the first one to come up after a google search.

For some reason the disk image brought me to a "page not available" so I downloaded the CD image instead (ISO). I burned the huge 4MB file onto a CD-rw, and booted the laptop with it. Sure enough right under Disk Maintenance there was an option to remove "Dynamic Drive Overlay" from the disk. It gave me a few warning that it would erase data on the drive and this and that. Luckily there was also an option to put DDO back onto the drive (why would anyone actaully do that though?).

It took a whopping .5 seconds to take the DDO off with this Seagate program.

PS. I'm now sitting at the Windows XP desktop with my new Laptop!

PSS. I spoke with a Compaq technician for 1 hour, and got absolutley nowhere. I feel bad for the guy because he seems smart, but he was held back by all those "rules" those tech guys have to follow. He had me set the bios to default, install windows another 3 times, turn it off for 10 seconds, things like that. I finally just told the guy I found a program that said it would remove the whole program. He responded with saying he would e-mail me the direction to remove the program. I really do feel bad for those people.