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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:44:38 -0700
From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>
To: Andrew Koester <Andrew7782@hotmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Completely Removing FreeBSD
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In-Reply-To: <OE8tYdVzDpubxcbz37c0000fbcd@hotmail.com>; from Andrew7782@hotmail.com on Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:34:49PM -0400
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:34:49PM -0400, Andrew Koester wrote:
> Hello. I installed FreeBSD on a partition of my hard drive. I need to remove all of it (boot loader and all.) I would just erase the partition, but that would leave the boot loader. How can I remove all of it safely?

If you can boot into dos "fdisk /mbr" should do it.


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