Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:50:21 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Killing old 2k partitions... Message-ID: <20020313165021.GC4304@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0203131000170.15769-100000@shell.core.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0203131000170.15769-100000@shell.core.com>
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:07:46AM -0600, Steven Lake wrote: > Ok, I'm probubly doing something wrong, but I've got an old > Windows 2000 machine we're blowing away and reinstalling with FreeBSD 4.5 > on a fresh install with a clean hard drive. Now here's the issue. Since > the machine was originally installed the partition was upgraded to a > dynamic disk. I tried regular windows Fdisk, but it won't see it right, > and I can't seem to get the Fdisk util for FBSD to blow away the old > partitions correctly and make a proper 165 partition. Any ideas? The > other machine we upgraded from 2k to Fbsd didn't have it's disks converted > to dynamic and they came over fine. > - Boot a DOS disk and try fdisk /mbr - dd the first few blocks of the disk to zeros - low level format it with disk manafacturers utility - ermmm.. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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