Date: Tue, 25 Mar 97 06:56:08 From: "Mike G." <mikegoe@ibm.net> To: "dlr" <dlr@asylum.org>, "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hard disk..converting from freebsd back to dos Message-ID: <199703251207.MAA279515@out1.ibm.net>
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On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 20:30:48 -0500, dlr wrote:
>
>I've run freebsd on many different machines, and have 2 hard disk each
>about 200 megs both with freebsd installed. I used the *whole disk* for
>freebsd thinking i would never go back.
>
>Now i'd like to take those two hard disks and redo them to put them in a
>windoz machine for my daughter (13y/o and she *does* know unix!). This is
>an old 486-50dx machine, and it won't recognize the larger HD's out
>now...otherwise i would just buy a new one.
>
>Of course a floppy boot to dos and the disks aren't recognized. Is there
>a simple way to convert them back to dos/windows?
Make a DOS boot disk and include fdisk and format. Boot w/
the floppy then delete the partitions, create new ones and
format the drive.
Michael G.
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