From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 1:28:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.libero.it (smtp1.libero.it [193.70.192.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB51837B831 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 01:28:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from madg66@libero.it) Received: from oemcomputer (151.35.184.84) by smtp1.libero.it; 28 Jul 2000 10:28:34 +0200 Message-ID: <002801bff86d$fd48e5c0$54b82397@oemcomputer> From: "Massimo De Giorgi" To: Subject: R: How to free a FreeBSD partition Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:26:15 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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