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Date:      Sat, 10 Feb 2001 17:12:27 -0500
From:      hawk <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
To:        f f <smowball99@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Partition Problems 
Message-ID:  <200102102212.f1AMCRj06642@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:07:38 PST." <20010210220738.19367.qmail@web9104.mail.yahoo.com> 

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> 
> Hello
> 
>   Hello, I have recently removed FreeBSD from my
> system and installed RedHat.  Well in that process
> something happened to the partitions and now nothing
> works correctly.  The last time this happened someone
> told me to low-level format the machine and this will
> take care of all the partitions and make the drive
> "like new"

You don't likely need to go that far.  Just delete the partitions
with fdisk or cfdisk, and then put them back in the exact
same place (or anywhere else, but if you put them in the
same place, the data will still be there).

hawk



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