From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 00:36:08 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 DEF6716A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:36:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E0343D3F for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:36:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from James_R_Phillips@yahoo.com) Received: from yahoo.com (c-24-11-247-249.client.comcast.net[24.11.247.249]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id <20040120083607012002dj08e> (Authid: JRPhillipsHm); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:36:07 +0000 Message-ID: <400CE876.8000405@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:36:06 -0500 From: "James R. Phillips" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Can FreeBSD Install damage an NTFS Partition 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, 20 Jan 2004 08:36:09 -0000 Hi, I just installed freebsd on the second disk drive of a dell precision 650 computer with win2k installed on the first disk drive, NTFS partition (slice). Both disk drives have multiple partitions, but I created free space on the second for the freebsd 4.9-386 install. During the install, I created one freebsd slice in unpartitioned free space, and left other partitions (slices) undisturbed. I did not choose to install the boot loader in the first disk mbr, preferring to continue to use grub (I already had a win2k/linux multiboot setup). After the install was complete, all seemed well until I tried to boot back into win2k. It appears that the file system was somehow damaged, because I kept getting a BSOD during the boot. The only way I could find to fix it was to restore the NTFS c:\ partition from backup. So - can a FreeBSD install in free space on the second drive somehow damage an NTFS partition on the first drive? Has this happened to anyone else? Thanks