From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 16 13:54:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D515F37B404 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 13:54:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from server2.fastmail.fm (ny2.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B2943F85 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 13:54:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (server1.internal [10.202.2.132]) by fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D1714FEAB; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:54:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:54:46 -0500 X-Epoch: 1047851686 X-Sasl-enc: ntEtXouGIsd6U9ZhikkXfQ Received: from sparky (dialup-67.28.74.14.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.28.74.14]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E86135F9; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:54:43 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Reynolds , dick hoogendijk , Dirk-Willem van Gulik Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: MBR screwed up References: <20030316153125.BD4A448463@wastegate.net> Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed From: Jud Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:54:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030316153125.BD4A448463@wastegate.net> User-Agent: Opera7.03/Win32 M2 build 2670 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:30:02 -0500, Doug Reynolds wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:29:26 +0100 (CET), Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > >> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, dick hoogendijk wrote: >> >>> master drive, but what do I do to get rid of the old fbsd loader on the >>> second and get a good windows-xp one? >> >> On older windozes one would boot from floppy and do a >> >> format.exe c: /mbr > > I don't know if that will do it. I've always used 'fdisk /mbr'. afaik, > you can only put a mbr on drive 0 Changing boot order in the bios will make whatever drive you like "drive 0" (or at any rate the first hard drive), I think. If you boot with the WinXP installer disk and choose to repair manually, you can get a list of repair commands (don't remember how, precisely - type "help," perhaps?), among which are a couple of relevant ones that allow you to put a "WinXP" MBR on the drive. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message