From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 12:23:17 2002 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 8605337B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smaug.rhavenn.net (smaug.rhavenn.net [209.150.195.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C50CE43E42 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:23:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@rhavenn.net) Received: from ashram.rhavenn.net (b8b5db4edc87ddfa3d5b87387fd27065@ashram.rhavenn.net [209.150.195.50]) by smaug.rhavenn.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g6QJPdCF013518; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:25:39 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Henrik Hudson Reply-To: lists@rhavenn.net To: neodan85@optonline.net (Dan) Subject: Re: BAck to XP (yuck) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:29:55 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200207261642.g6QGgK819504@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200207261642.g6QGgK819504@clunix.cl.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200207261429.55405.lists@rhavenn.net> 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 As a guy who regularly switches back and forth between 2000 or XP and Fre= eBSD=20 (don't ask why I don't just dual-boot) I have never had a problem=20 reinstalling Windows. Sure, it says "unknow partitions" but you just tell= it=20 to wipe those partitions and it pops up your nice little warning "Are you= =20 sure? etc..." and you click "Yes" and off you go. Partition Magic, etc...= =20 isn't needed. Gaming is the only thing Windows is good for...everything e= lse=20 UNIX can do differently and/or better. On Friday 26 July 2002 11:42, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > i recently installed FreeBSD on one of my computers. I discovered t= hat > > it was harder to learn than i thought it would be and i wanted to go = back > > to WindowsXP. I tried formatting the disk and using the installer on= the > > XP CDROM but it always says there is a primary hard disk failure. Ho= w > > can i fix this so i can install Windows again. > > First, have some patience with FreeBSD. It can actually be learned, > unlike Microsloth stuff which is a house of tricks. And once you get > it, that other stuff will seem weak and hard to use. > > Second, you may have to get your hands on a partition mangler such > as Partition Magic from Power Quest to clean things up before the XP > installer will know what to do. PM seems to work well and is copiously > documented and is available in many stores including Best Buy where I > found it recently. > > ////jerry > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 Henrik Hudson lists@rhavenn.net Note: Beware of Dragons - Thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message