Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:15:41 -0700 From: "Derrick Ryalls" <freebsd@fbsdsolutions.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Need to delete partition Message-ID: <20040616171746.A901443D2F@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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I have an XP/FreeBSD 5.x dual boot machine that has been running fine for 6mos which I had to power down last week. It had been booted to XP and I did a normal clean shutdown, but now my XP system is hosed. After using BSD to backup data, I tried a normal install to redo the partition, but found that for whatever reason, XP cannot write to the partition table (if that is the term) and the install bails. I tried using /stand/sysinstall to delete the partition, but it too gives an error: Unable to write data to disk ad4! Disk Partition write returned an error status! I have also noticed that when booting into FreeBSD now, it takes a couple minutes to get past the detection of my mouse, hanging after the 5 buttons line below (from dmesg): ums0: Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM), rev 1.10/3.00, add r 2, iclass 3/1 ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir. uhub0: device problem, disabling port 2 When initially setting up the partitions, I believe I made 4 primary partitions though I wouldn't think this is causing any issue here. Any ideas on how to fix this? Is there some BSD tool that I am not thinking of? Hardware: ASUS A7V600 VIA KT600 VIA 8237 SATA150 controller Maxtor 6Y120M0 SATA drive. TIA Derrick
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