From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 17:17:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15BE816A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:17:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clanbuckbuck.org (c-67-160-113-101.client.comcast.net [67.160.113.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A901443D2F for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:17:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@fbsdsolutions.com) Received: from RYALLS1 ([207.46.238.137]) (AUTH: LOGIN ryallsd) by clanbuckbuck.org with esmtp; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:18:52 -0700 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:15:41 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Thread-Index: AcRTxYzN8HbwNMmyQ8KrNOS5tqL7lQ== Message-Id: <20040616171746.A901443D2F@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Need to delete partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:17:47 -0000 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