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Did you do the bios adjust thing, to try and detect it, or did you not
change the disk's arrangement physically?

Brian "Sonic" Whalen
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Andre` Niel Cameron wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 1)Windows needs a dos pertition before it can see the drive.  Thats why you
> are having problems with windows.
>
> 2)Test the CD in another drive.  Make sure its bootable.
> Regards,
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bob@area.com>
> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1:33 PM
> Subject: question from a linux newbie
>
>
> > Hi
> >    I have a 6.4Gb Quantum bigfoot CY type drive that has RedHat 2.0 on it
> > and I had planned to reformat it to use half of it for Windoz98 and half
> for Freebsd - so far so good, however the microsloth tool 'fdisk' sez 'no
> disk present' Thats krazie, the disk works for linux but windoz can't even
> see it!
> > Is there any hope of fixing this?
> >
> > Alzo, the system I'm playing with has a HP9100 type CD ROM dirve and my
> original RedHat 2.0 boot CD will boot on this machine, but the FREEBSD (disk
> dated Nov2000 ) will not boot .... gremlinz or? ... is it bad black magic?
> > what could be going on here?
> > Please enlighten me
> > & Thanks
> > B0b
> >
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