Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 12:04:11 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: remove FBSD partition in Win2k Message-ID: <20011208100410.GA9953@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <EIEJJDNOODKOCHBBKBIJEEOMCJAA.luomat@peak.org> References: <EIEJJDNOODKOCHBBKBIJEEOMCJAA.luomat@peak.org>
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On 2001-12-08 04:06:11, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > I've decided that I just don't have the time to devote to learning FreeBSD > when I don't have another machine I can set aside for its use. > > Currently I have 3 partitions on my machine: > > 1) NTFS (Win2k) > 2) FAT32 > 3) FreeBSD > > I would like to make the 3rd partition accessible under Win2k as an NTFS > filesystem and remove the FreeBSD boot loader. This can easily be done by using the normal disk administration tools of your favorite OS, and deleting the FreeBSD partition. Then make a new partition of whatever type you want, in the free area of your disk. I'm afraid I can not describe the exact steps this would require under Win2k though, since I don't use Win2k. To install a new clean boot loader, most OSes provide tools to help. Under FreeBSD you would use boot0cfg(8), under Win2k I believe (but I'm not sure, and please do verify this with someone who knows Win2k better) that you would simply have to run: C:\> FDISK /MBR to install a new, master boot record, without messing any partitions you already happen to have. > I know this won't be popular, but can someone help me figure this out so I > don't lose my Win2k stuff? > > I love Un*x and would love to have FreeBSD running, but I just don't have > the time to figure it all out and administer it. It's OK. When you do feel like using FreeBSD though, this list and the other support places of FreeBSD will welcome you again. For the moment, do what suits your needs best. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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