From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 8 18:18:52 2004 Return-Path: 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 1799D16A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:18:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta04-svc.ntlworld.com (mta04-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A05E43D4C for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:18:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from m271-mp1.cvx4-c.pop.dial.ntli.net ([80.1.185.15]) by mta04-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20040608181751.OEGK24958.mta04-svc.ntlworld.com@m271-mp1.cvx4-c.pop.dial.ntli.net>; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 19:17:51 +0100 From: Ben Paley To: Malcolm Kay Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 19:18:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <200406061204.i56C4OAQ001151@mist.nodomain> <200406072050.22859.ben@spooty.net> <200406081908.54609.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200406081908.54609.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406081918.37769.ben@spooty.net> cc: Dan Strick cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 18:18:52 -0000 On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:38, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Tuesday 08 June 2004 05:20, Ben Paley wrote: > > But seriously, does any of this suggest a course of action to you? I'm > > planning to try the "set sysid to 0" plan... what if that doesn't work? > > Sounds like an excellent idea. Perhaps windows is seeing the slice as a fs > it knows about but finds it unformatted, so is offering to do that for you. > > So maybe setting sysid to zero (which I think registers as an undefined > slice) will stop windows making the offer. > > Whatever else I can't see how this would make the situation worse. Well, this seems to solve my problem. That is, Windows no longer sees an extra disk, so I guess it won't try to format it! Now I feel happy about letting other people use the computer again... death threats wear out on 10 year olds so quickly... On the other hand, Partition Magic won't run any more - I get "library or disk not open" which seems to me like a typically uninformative Windows error message. Perhaps it's not even connected. Who cares? I can live without partition magic. Thank you all so much for your thoughts and advice, I really appreciate it. Cheers, Ben