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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
> 



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