Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:26:15 +0200 From: "Massimo De Giorgi" <madg66@libero.it> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: R: How to free a FreeBSD partition Message-ID: <002801bff86d$fd48e5c0$54b82397@oemcomputer>
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>> Hello, >> >> In a PC I have installed 2 partions : >> - one for DOS/WINDOWS >> - and the second for FreeBSD >> >> And now I would like to dedicate this PC to Windows (and dedicate >> another PC to FreeBSD). >> How to free BSD partition and restore it for Windows ? >> >> Has someone here already done sucessfully this operation ? >> >> Any information would be appreciated. Mikhail Ranish's partition manager can help you. Sorry, I don't remember the site address. >> Thanks a lot >> >> >> Regards >> >> > >Simple, run window's fdisk, select option '3', (erase partition), select >'4', (remove non-dos partition), select the appropriate FreeBSD >partition, erase it, and then re-create a new extended dos partition. Pay attention. If you have a cd drive , say D:, it will became E: and you will find that some windows software you run from cd's ( maybe games or other ) won't run anymore. >Then to get rid of the FreeBSD boot manager, reboot into windows DOS >PROMPT ONLY, and type: fdisk /mbr . Then reboot, and you're done. Is this an undocumented option? fdisk /? reports only /status and /x as legal options(win98). Bye. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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