From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 12:37: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F220537BAAD for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:36:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA17480; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:34:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <39808F04.2FA27127@wmptl.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:35:32 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: thuall Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to free a FreeBSD partition References: <000701bff801$be78b260$221afac1@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > thuall wrote: > > Hello, > > In a PC I have installed 2 partions : > - one for DOS/WINDOWS > - and the second for FreeBSD > > And now I would like to dedicate this PC to Windows (and dedicate > another PC to FreeBSD). > How to free BSD partition and restore it for Windows ? > > Has someone here already done sucessfully this operation ? > > Any information would be appreciated. > > Thanks a lot > > > Regards > > Simple, run window's fdisk, select option '3', (erase partition), select '4', (remove non-dos partition), select the appropriate FreeBSD partition, erase it, and then re-create a new extended dos partition. Then to get rid of the FreeBSD boot manager, reboot into windows DOS PROMPT ONLY, and type: fdisk /mbr . Then reboot, and you're done. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message