Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 13:17:44 -0400 From: John Cantu <Jeian@myrealbox.com> To: achornback@worldnet.att.net, Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Subject: Re: RE: HELP! Message-ID: <1002475064.4e242ffaJeian@myrealbox.com>
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I'm not sure that it was actually the mounting of the filesystem, all I know is, I rebooted to FreeBSD and Windows didn't work <is interrupted by the TV announcing the bombing of Afghanistan> <returns> Windows complains of corrupted system files, such as VMM32.VXD That obvious solution to that is to reinstall, but I doubt Windows will want to install to a non-FAT volume without formatting, and I don't want to lose my data (it's hard for 15-year-olds to purchase backup devices on such budgets as we often have :) I know for a fact that it's a FAT32 file system, however, I mounted it as type msdos, as that was the only available option that came close. John -----Original Message----- From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net> To: "John Cantu" <Jeian@myrealbox.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 21:08:52 -0400 Subject: RE: HELP! > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of John Cantu > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 5:38 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: HELP! > > Hi all, > I just installed FreeBSD to my hard drive to dual-boot along with > Windows ME. > > Anyway, everything went just fine, apart from that I had to > reinstall Windows ME after the BSD install. > Windows worked perfectly well... until I booted to BSD, mounted > the FAT32 filesystem, then tried to reboot to Windows when I was > done. Now Windows fails due to corrupted system files, and DOS > fdisk reports my Windows partition as a Non-DOS partition. > HELP!!! How did this happen, and how can I fix it? This isn't all that unusual, at least the part about a FAT32 partition being considered Non-DOS by DOS' fdisk. 98 was the beginning of the horrendous abhoration called FAT32, and isn't exactly backwards compatible. Are you sure the Windows partition is FAT32? I've not really worked with mounting such things under FreeBSD, but if it was FAT16 and you mounted it as FAT32 and wrote to it, you may have really screwed something up there. I'm unaware of any way that FreeBSD would mangle a FAT32 partition simply by mounting it. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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