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Date:      Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:03:13 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: [Mailer-Daemon@probity.mcc.ac.uk: Mail delivery failed: retu
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000803160313.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20000803140833.A63622@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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On 03-Aug-00 j mckitrick wrote:
> in a previous message it was explained that 'dangerously dedicated' is
> called
> that because sometimes the BIOS will not recognize a boot block without a
> valid slice table.  Does this affect my being able to reformat the HD and
> reinstall windows if i ever sell my laptop?  Or am i stuck with freeBSD
> forever on this drive?

Not that I am aware of. I have been able to DOS-fdisk the drive to get
partition entries back. (or was it fdisk /mbr? Anyway, it can be done!)

/M
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