Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:12:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Doug Lee <dgl@visi.com> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is `fdisk /mbr' REQUIRED to reuse DD drives? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008041539550.397-100000@kirk.dsl.visi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008040820230.7553-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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Actually I did set the primary partition active; I just forgot to say so. :-) But I can fdisk/mbr now because I'm back home. Thanks for the reply. -- Doug Lee dgl@visi.com http://www.visi.com/~dgl On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > (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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