Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:09:17 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Joe Kolley <jkolley@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD help? Message-ID: <20000728090917.B87002@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n> In-Reply-To: <412000742720838640@earthlink.net>; from jkolley@earthlink.net on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 01:08:38PM -0700 References: <412000742720838640@earthlink.net>
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 01:08:38PM -0700, Joe Kolley wrote:
> Hello, well to start with I am fairly good with windows, but this I know
> nothing about. Listening to a friend of mine, I took his boot disk and some
> root disk, to help fix my laptop which had a clean C:\ drive. well upon
> installing the two disks, I found out I was in way over my head and tried
> to get out without doing much damage, however now I am trying to boot up my
> laptop with a windows 98 startup disk, and windows can not detect a C:
> drive. With this said, i have no way of formatting my C: drive, because i
> need to install some kind of formatting tool on a C: drive my computer does
> not see. After saying all this,(I know, I am stupid. This friend i will
> never listen too again.) how would i delete free bsd, or format my C:\
> drive so i can partition my C: drive for windows?
You'll have to fdisk your hard-drive and reallocate a partition for
Windows. If you have a Windows Installation CDROM, you should be able
to just reinstall Windows. If I recall correctly (it's been some time),
the installation process will allow you to wipe the destination disk
clean of non-MS operating systems.
--
Jonathan Chen | To do is to be -- Nietzsche
<jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> | To be is to do -- Sartre
| Scooby do be do -- Scooby
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