From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 8:21:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C6837BA9E for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:21:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA03515; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:21:52 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id IAA10155; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:21:48 -0700 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:21:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Doug Lee Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is `fdisk /mbr' REQUIRED to reuse DD drives? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > (2) I have to run fdisk/mbr to fix this. Before I tinker with the drive > (which is now full of data), I thought I'd ask those of you who have > converted DD drives to more standard configurations... > > Is there a chance that running fdisk/mbr would help here, or would it be a > waste of time by now? Easy... since it's a Windows disk now you need to have an active partition. Go into fdisk and set the primary one as the active. You might want to run fdisk /mbr anyways. (It's one of those prevenitive maitenence things that Windows needs....) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message