From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 16 23:41:19 2003 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 D7D8137B405 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 23:41:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from famine.e-raist.com (famine.e-raist.com [65.100.40.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42EF343F85 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 23:41:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aburke@nullplusone.com) Received: from thebe (evrtwa1-ar10-4-40-153-150.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net [4.40.153.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by famine.e-raist.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1H7fFau075053; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 23:41:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Aaron Burke" To: ". Saevio ." Cc: Subject: RE: Need help formatting HDD Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 23:40:51 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal 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 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of . Saevio . > Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 11:21 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Need help formatting HDD > > > > Hi All, Hi ". Saevio ." > > Sorry to write a F-BSD list with this, but i figured you would know. > I have a IBM Deskstar 30gb, with FreeBSD 4.x on it, and i need to > remove it > so i can install the HDD in a friends system. However after trying with > format.com and fdisk.exe it wont even recognize the partition. Fdisk is not going to be able to identify the FreeBSD partition. It will only show up as unknown. But you should still be able to delete an unknown partition. > > How do i remove it? anything would be appreciated. (non bsd discussion follows) I am assuming that you want to make a FAT filesystem on the drive for use in windows. This should be pretty simple. Create a new Master partition on the drive. reboot type "dir c:\" (or whatever drive you expect it to be) You should get a message about the os not being able to read the partion. If you dont, and it lists files, then repost to this list and re-describe what is exactly going on. If you get the message then use "format c: /s". (the /s tells the format utility to copy over the system files and make the drive bootable). Then remove the hard drive and give it to your friend. > > Thanks, > > ..brian.. > (snip) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message