What's an EISA Configuration?

Fuzz · 28 Oct 2007 at 12:20

and is it removable..
It's taking up 78MB of space on a tosh 2.5HDD and I'm trying to totally wipe it as it has some errors (I think)
What would be a good program to use as Disc management doesn't quite cut the mustard here.

Andy

VeNT · 28 Oct 2007 at 13:49

iirc you need to low level format it or somthing, you're right that disk management doesn't do it but maybe FDISK will?

Fuzz · 28 Oct 2007 at 14:21

Partition magic wiped it but now laptop hangs on setup with XP pro disc.
Driving me f nuts

IAmATeaf · 29 Oct 2007 at 11:07

E-ISA was as far as I can remember a new extended-ISA standard for making ISA ports plu and play. You had to run and load this util to configure any EISA cards before they would work. Having typed the above this was years and years ago so unless the laptop is really ancient (in a moo-moo land!) then I can't see it being of any use.

Deathwish · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:46

I know that old ProLiant HP (Compaq) servers used an EISA partition to to the os install. Could be something like that?

matja · 30 Oct 2007 at 16:38

Since PCI has been arround, OEM recovery/config partitions are usually set to that partition type because Windows is hardcoded to never try to mount or modify anything inside a partition of that type. What your OEM/retailer has used it for is anyone's guess

Fuzz · 30 Oct 2007 at 18:34

Yep it was indeed a recovery partition.
I nuked it anyway.

laptop still refused to boot off a fresh XP disc though, gave up in the end..
Hardware fault with the lappy I think.

Andy