From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 8:50:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8773D37B421 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:50:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 16lBxF-0009TK-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:50:21 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 1A7EB4880D for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:50:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 6DAE522599; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:50:21 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:50:21 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Killing old 2k partitions... Message-ID: <20020313165021.GC4304@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:07:46AM -0600, Steven Lake wrote: > Ok, I'm probubly doing something wrong, but I've got an old > Windows 2000 machine we're blowing away and reinstalling with FreeBSD 4.5 > on a fresh install with a clean hard drive. Now here's the issue. Since > the machine was originally installed the partition was upgraded to a > dynamic disk. I tried regular windows Fdisk, but it won't see it right, > and I can't seem to get the Fdisk util for FBSD to blow away the old > partitions correctly and make a proper 165 partition. Any ideas? The > other machine we upgraded from 2k to Fbsd didn't have it's disks converted > to dynamic and they came over fine. > - Boot a DOS disk and try fdisk /mbr - dd the first few blocks of the disk to zeros - low level format it with disk manafacturers utility - ermmm.. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message