Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:41:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Gus Mancuso <gus@fiawol.org> To: jkolley@earthlink.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD help? Message-ID: <200007281441.KAA96878@smof.fiawol.org> In-Reply-To: <412000742720838640@earthlink.net> "from Joe Kolley at Jul 27, 2000 01:08:38 pm"
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Hmmm Sounds like you got to the partition editing part of the FBSD install. There's a couple of ways to fix it, all involve some form of fdisk. If you don't have, or know someone with a boot disk containing fdisk and format, I think there is an equivalent on the Windows startup disk called ofdisk and oformat. (They are in a sub-dir but I can't remember the name of it) Easiest thing to do is to start up, get to the command prompt (press F8 while the "loading WinXX" is showing) and start ofdisk. Then just delete all of the partitions ***WARNING*** THAT STEP EFFECTIVELY KILLS ALL YOUR OLD DATA --So don't do it if you think there's a chance something simple can fix it. After it's done, you should be able to load windows via the standard install method. Out of curiosity, what Win problem were you trying to fix with BSD boot disks? Hope that's useful. -Gus > Hello, well to start with I am fairly good with windows, but this I know > nothing about. Listening to a friend of mine, I took his boot disk and some > root disk, to help fix my laptop which had a clean C:\ drive. well upon > installing the two disks, I found out I was in way over my head and tried > to get out without doing much damage, however now I am trying to boot up my > laptop with a windows 98 startup disk, and windows can not detect a C: > drive. With this said, i have no way of formatting my C: drive, because i > need to install some kind of formatting tool on a C: drive my computer does > not see. After saying all this,(I know, I am stupid. This friend i will > never listen too again.) how would i delete free bsd, or format my C:\ > drive so i can partition my C: drive for windows? > thank you for your time and help, > Joe Kolley > > > --- Joe Kolley > --- jkolley@earthlink.net > --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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