[Calpernia]

My bios did disappear Revel.

I even tried making a new one with Max Blast.

No good.

It was an older Compaq Presario workstation from a fire sale that I upgraded.

Older compaqs can only be recycled for so long (by a novice).

[Revel]

MaxBlast only deals with the hard drive...Not the bios. The bios is stored on a programable memory chip and is plugged into a socket on the mother board. It tells the motherboard how to behave. Even how to read the hard drive. Without it you could not even get the maxblast program to appear on the computer screen. Also you don't even need a hard drive to just view the maxblast program menu. I hope that explains the difference to you a little better.