Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:54:48 -0500 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: Doug Reynolds <mav@wastegate.net>, dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>, Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MBR screwed up Message-ID: <oprl5dtmna0cf2rk@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <20030316153125.BD4A448463@wastegate.net> References: <20030316153125.BD4A448463@wastegate.net>
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On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:30:02 -0500, Doug Reynolds <mav@wastegate.net> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:29:26 +0100 (CET), Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > >> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, dick hoogendijk wrote: >> >>> master drive, but what do I do to get rid of the old fbsd loader on the >>> second and get a good windows-xp one? >> >> On older windozes one would boot from floppy and do a >> >> format.exe c: /mbr > > I don't know if that will do it. I've always used 'fdisk /mbr'. afaik, > you can only put a mbr on drive 0 Changing boot order in the bios will make whatever drive you like "drive 0" (or at any rate the first hard drive), I think. If you boot with the WinXP installer disk and choose to repair manually, you can get a list of repair commands (don't remember how, precisely - type "help," perhaps?), among which are a couple of relevant ones that allow you to put a "WinXP" MBR on the drive. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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