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Date:      Thu, 11 Jun 1998 22:42:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ahsan Naqvi <ahsan@idirect.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: help 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980611223958.9285A-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <339E0715.458E3275@idirect.com>

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On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Ahsan Naqvi wrote:

>     I am a newbie I recently installed freebsd on my system 166 mmx 32
> mb ram 2 gb hardrive with two partitions. On primary dos partition i
> have win95 installed. Freebsd was installed on other partition.
> 
>     The installation went perfect and freebsd worked fine but the
> problem started with win95. As I entered in win95 it jammed and was not
> able to run the startup programs. I some how managed to bypass it by
> pressing CTRL ALT DEL. The problem occurred again when I tried opening
> win explorer, win95 halted for couple of minutes and then opened
> explorer. I tried making a folder and the same thing occurred. Every
> other program is working fine in win95 but  the same problem appear on
> saving or reading files in any program.
> 
>     It seems as if win95 is trying to read the other partition for
> freebsd which it can't. Pls help me in solving the problem.

I've never heard of Windows trying to read a FreeBSD drive.  I'd run a
scandisk against your windows disks.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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