EISA Configuration?

[daws]

hey
i was wondering if anyone could tell me what this means
in the computer management. Under the Disk management section, i have a hard drive thats got an EISA Configuration, it doesnt show up in my computer. i was wondering if anyone could shed any light. there was data on here before an acer reinstall of windows was redone to the computer it was in at the time.

Is it possible to recover the data? or make it readable. anyway.
Cheers,
Daws

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I researched this some time ago on a ~1993 computer. Basically, it would require a BIOS update and the motherboard manufacturer (American Megatrends) was long out of the motherboard business. The only thing I could do was recycle it and use a newer computer (~1997 in its place).


What interface does the drive use? SCSI, ATA, SATA, etc.?

 

[Jstn7477]

Wait, isn't EISA a type of partition used for system recovery?

 

[Mussels]

blah daws, you could at least have said the same things you said to me in MSN


system was working fine, brother ran some kind of recovery disk, now the partition isnt acecesible in windows, but shows as EISA in partition management in the OS.


he didnt specify what kind of system, drive, or OS to me either.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

This is all I've ever heard of in regards to EISA and computers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Industry_Standard_Architecture

My 1993 computer got bricked the same way. I was erasing it (it had over 15 years of crap on it) thinking I had everything I needed to get it up and running again but, no EISA drivers/BIOS. I couldn't get anywhere with it and gave up.

 

[Deleted member 3]

This is all I've ever heard of in regards to EISA and computers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Industry_Standard_Architecture

My 1993 computer got bricked the same way. I was erasing it (it had over 15 years of crap on it) thinking I had everything I needed to get it up and running again but, no EISA drivers/BIOS. I couldn't get anywhere with it and gave up.

Completely unrelated though. The EISA partition contains various diagnostic crap and the likes, many OEMs use them.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Extra information storage area? I seriously can't find much beyond the Extended Industry Standard Architecture.

 

[daws]

blah daws, you could at least have said the same things you said to me in MSN


system was working fine, brother ran some kind of recovery disk, now the partition isnt acecesible in windows, but shows as EISA in partition management in the OS.


he didnt specify what kind of system, drive, or OS to me either.

You're an outdated meme no one cares..

it was running vista and the drive is IDE its a 160gig seagate

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Definitely nothing to do with the EISA standard then. It could be merely a hidden and/or read-only partition. You could probably get at it by booting into MS-DOS but I doubt there is anything there worth finding.