From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 18:34:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF4716A41F for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:34:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F1DE43D46 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:34:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j71IYkG1059583; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 13:34:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <42EE6A96.2020709@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:31:50 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Barniskis References: <000601c59499$b7589470$6600a8c0@monster> <42EE69E0.7040702@scls.lib.wi.us> In-Reply-To: <42EE69E0.7040702@scls.lib.wi.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jerry Tarwid Subject: Re: How do I get rid of booteasy??? & re-install windows xp mbr using ntfs??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:34:48 -0000 Sorry, I'm an idiot and didn't read your whole message. Nor even half. Must sleep more. Greg Barniskis wrote: > Jerry Tarwid wrote: > >> I am dual booting with Winblows XP and FreeBSD. I installed the >> FreeBSD Boot manager so I can dual boot. I now want to remove it! I >> have freaking scoured the $@!#$! net & still have NOT found an >> answer??? Anyone???? I'm using an NTFS volume so fdisk/mbr doesn't >> work and neither does booting to an xp cd recovery console and using >> fixboot or fixmbr. The $#!@#$ booteasy boot manager still leaves >> something in the mbr....nothing works! I cannot believe that I am the >> only human being on the planet that has encountered this problem! A >> LITTLE HELP??? > > > Hmmm... "scoured", eh? Googling "FreeBSD MBR uninstall" returns over > 5000 hits. That's probably too many to cope with, but luckily the > correct answer is listed at least twice in the top five pages. (Moral of > the story: if your search terms are leading you nowhere, try different > search terms ;). > > Use an XP boot floppy/CD with their fdisk program and "fdisk /MBR". If > you'd prefer to remove the MBR using FreeBSD, see: > > man fdisk > > You can also clobber the MBR the same way you installed it in the first > place: using sysinstall. This will simply invoke FreeBSD's fdisk on your > behalf, if I'm not mistaken. > -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348