Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:31:38 -0500 From: Ciro Maietta <ciro@im1.net> To: Scott Voegtlin <davedealer2000@yahoo.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reformat to a FAT partition Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020313101755.009f1b80@pop.mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <20020313151226.4572.qmail@web13007.mail.yahoo.com>
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At 3/13/02 -0800 07:12 AM, Scott Voegtlin wrote: >Howdy > >I'm sorry to be a pain in the ass, but I'm absolutely desperate.. I've >been reading through the manual and the "stuff" that came along with the >OS, but I've stuck. I've decided that the machine I was originally going >to operate a BsD server on is no longer adequet for my purposes.. so I was >told to uninstall BsD on it, and format the drive back to a FAT32, and put >Windows NT (I know, I know.. what a pain) back on it. > >I've installed BsD on this machine, however, I can't seem to get it off... >How do I format the drive back to a FAT32? > >Thanks for your time > >Scott Do you have a windows9x boot/setup disk? If so, you should be able to just use the DOS FDISK command to delete the FreeBSD partition that's there now (It will be listed as a Non-Dos partition) and create a new fat32 partition. Then just format it and you are on your way. Otherwise, you can use a fixit floppy (easily made, there's an image in the /floppies folder of the FreeBSD Release CD #1) and use fdisk to delete the freebsd partition, and recreate one of the appropriate type number (which escapes me at the moment, but you should be able to get it from man fdisk. From there you should be able to use dos/win's FORMAT and you're all set. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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