From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 04:07:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA08357 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 04:07:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA08350 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 04:07:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by out1.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA279515; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:07:41 GMT Message-Id: <199703251207.MAA279515@out1.ibm.net> Received: from slip166-72-108-81.ny.us.ibm.net(166.72.108.81) by out1.ibm.net via smap (V1.3mjr) id smahakCcx; Tue Mar 25 12:07:17 1997 From: "Mike G." To: "dlr" , "questions@freebsd.org" Date: Tue, 25 Mar 97 06:56:08 Reply-To: "Mike G." Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Michael Goeringer's Registered PMMail 1.53 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Hard disk..converting from freebsd back to dos Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 20:30:48 -0500, dlr wrote: > >I've run freebsd on many different machines, and have 2 hard disk each >about 200 megs both with freebsd installed. I used the *whole disk* for >freebsd thinking i would never go back. > >Now i'd like to take those two hard disks and redo them to put them in a >windoz machine for my daughter (13y/o and she *does* know unix!). This is >an old 486-50dx machine, and it won't recognize the larger HD's out >now...otherwise i would just buy a new one. > >Of course a floppy boot to dos and the disks aren't recognized. Is there >a simple way to convert them back to dos/windows? Make a DOS boot disk and include fdisk and format. Boot w/ the floppy then delete the partitions, create new ones and format the drive. Michael G. Brought to you by the Letters 'O' and 'S' and the number '2' :) Live "Free"BSD or Die!