From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 7 10:17:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E82EC37B405 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 10:17:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Jeian [4.34.234.82] by myrealbox.com with NIMS ModWeb Module; Sun, 07 Oct 2001 13:17:44 -0400 Subject: Re: RE: HELP! From: John Cantu To: achornback@worldnet.att.net, Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 13:17:44 -0400 X-Mailer: NIMS ModWeb Module X-Sender: Jeian MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1002475064.4e242ffaJeian@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm not sure that it was actually the mounting of the filesystem, all I kno= w is, I rebooted to FreeBSD and Windows didn't work Windows complains of corrupted system files, such as VMM32.VXD That obvious solution to that is to reinstall, but I doubt Windows will wan= t 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 su= ch budgets as we often have :) I know for a fact that it's a FAT32 file system, however, I mounted it as t= ype msdos, as that was the only available option that came close. John -----Original Message----- From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "John Cantu" , 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? =09This 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. =09Are you sure the Windows partition is FAT32? I've not really worked wit= h 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. =09I'm unaware of any way that FreeBSD would mangle a FAT32 partition simpl= y by mounting it. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message