From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 10 14:27:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1532937B491 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:27:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1AMCRj06642; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 17:12:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200102102212.f1AMCRj06642@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: f f , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition Problems In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:07:38 PST." <20010210220738.19367.qmail@web9104.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 17:12:27 -0500 From: hawk Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hello > > Hello, I have recently removed FreeBSD from my > system and installed RedHat. Well in that process > something happened to the partitions and now nothing > works correctly. The last time this happened someone > told me to low-level format the machine and this will > take care of all the partitions and make the drive > "like new" You don't likely need to go that far. Just delete the partitions with fdisk or cfdisk, and then put them back in the exact same place (or anywhere else, but if you put them in the same place, the data will still be there). hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message