Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:16:30 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: disk management Message-ID: <20050822171629.GA31832@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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I have a 250G disk. First partition is WinXp; second is a FAT32 part and the third is FreeBSD-5.4 When I run Powerquest Partition Manager it comes up with an "error 116" about a dismatch of CHS/LBA setting on the disk and proposes to set things right. Yeah right... The first time I let it do so and was not able to boot FreeBSD anymore. Have no idea why, but it happened. So I reinstalled and now all's runnig fine, except that I want to get rid of WinXP. But I'm a little afraid to ruin my fbsd pastition again. So let me ask you: If I delete the XP partition (i.e. with the fbsd fdisk progam) and write the partition table back to disk, will this ruin my third fbsd part? If not can I safely install Win98 (which is LBA) on the first part and afterwards put my bootsector back (I know how to do that in 5.4) The scary part is that there seems to be a misunderstanding of my disk by Microsoft programs (using a LBA disk setting) and my FreeBSD (using CHS settings). I can only put ONE option on in the bios though ;-) Maybe it's better to use non-LBA (*nix) in the bios? Or will that disturb futere win isntallations? Waahhhhhhh, why are things so complicated.. And yes, I DO need a Microsoft part. It's for gaming.. But XP does not suit me well, so I want to go back to 98se SP2 for the time being. Again I want my FreeBSD slice to be safe! Any advice on how to handle my harddisk. Recommended utilities other than fdisk or what? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja
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