Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:21:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> To: Doug Lee <dgl@visi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is `fdisk /mbr' REQUIRED to reuse DD drives? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008040820230.7553-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008040432080.397-100000@kirk.dsl.visi.com>
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> (2) I have to run fdisk/mbr to fix this. Before I tinker with the drive > (which is now full of data), I thought I'd ask those of you who have > converted DD drives to more standard configurations... > > Is there a chance that running fdisk/mbr would help here, or would it be a > waste of time by now? Easy... since it's a Windows disk now you need to have an active partition. Go into fdisk and set the primary one as the active. You might want to run fdisk /mbr anyways. (It's one of those prevenitive maitenence things that Windows needs....) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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