From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 21 00:21:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 9F99F16A42C for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 00:21:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from mxsf40.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf40.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78FE43D4C for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 00:21:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from mxip32a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip32a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.247]) by mxsf40.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4L0LPd8002038 for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 20:21:25 -0400 Received: from 24-176-104-160.dhcp.jcsn.tn.charter.com (HELO [192.168.254.3]) ([24.176.104.160]) by mxip32a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 20 May 2006 20:21:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org> References: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <617FCA5B-C026-4F22-8DFD-62FD2FE62601@charter.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Howse Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 19:21:23 -0500 To: Gary Kline X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: cleaning off unix/linux???? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 00:21:27 -0000 On May 20, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > Gang, > > A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K > on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid having > to buy a DOS/Win platform. I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu > on this one machine. For various reasons I need one DOS machine. > (Already have 7 or 8 *Nix servers.) The Windows 2000 > "Professional" CD find some other non-Windows partition and > press "D" and "L" as I will, the installation CD keeps > complaining. Eventually I have to hit F3 to quit. So, nutshell, > is there any way I can completely remove any trace of *Nix? > -----I remember having a DOS floppy and typing an undocumented > MBR \ command that wiped the drive clean of this boot record, > but this was [mumble] years ago. > > thanks for any tips, y'all, > > gary Looking for delpart.exe? I've used it, it'll do the trick. http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm -- Thanks, Charles http://bubbabbq.homeunix.net