From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 14:12:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kirk.dsl.visi.com (kirk.dsl.visi.com [209.98.248.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FA7A37B69F for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:12:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgl@visi.com) Received: from localhost (dgl@localhost) by kirk.dsl.visi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA12590; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:12:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dgl@visi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: kirk.dsl.visi.com: dgl owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:12:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Doug Lee To: Rick Hamell 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 Actually I did set the primary partition active; I just forgot to say so. :-) But I can fdisk/mbr now because I'm back home. Thanks for the reply. -- Doug Lee dgl@visi.com http://www.visi.com/~dgl On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > (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