From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 18:31:45 2005 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 E7D6916A41F for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:31:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9194743D46 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:31:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j71IViG1059432; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 13:31:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <42EE69E0.7040702@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:28:48 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry Tarwid References: <000601c59499$b7589470$6600a8c0@monster> In-Reply-To: <000601c59499$b7589470$6600a8c0@monster> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I get rid of booteasy??? & re-install windows xp mbr using ntfs??? 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: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:31:46 -0000 Jerry Tarwid wrote: > I am dual booting with Winblows XP and FreeBSD. I installed the FreeBSD Boot manager so I can dual boot. I now want to remove it! I have freaking scoured the $@!#$! net & still have NOT found an answer??? Anyone???? I'm using an NTFS volume so fdisk/mbr doesn't work and neither does booting to an xp cd recovery console and using fixboot or fixmbr. The $#!@#$ booteasy boot manager still leaves something in the mbr....nothing works! I cannot believe that I am the only human being on the planet that has encountered this problem! A LITTLE HELP??? Hmmm... "scoured", eh? Googling "FreeBSD MBR uninstall" returns over 5000 hits. That's probably too many to cope with, but luckily the correct answer is listed at least twice in the top five pages. (Moral of the story: if your search terms are leading you nowhere, try different search terms ;). Use an XP boot floppy/CD with their fdisk program and "fdisk /MBR". If you'd prefer to remove the MBR using FreeBSD, see: man fdisk You can also clobber the MBR the same way you installed it in the first place: using sysinstall. This will simply invoke FreeBSD's fdisk on your behalf, if I'm not mistaken. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348