Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 19:18:37 +0100 From: Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> To: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem Message-ID: <200406081918.37769.ben@spooty.net> In-Reply-To: <200406081908.54609.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <200406061204.i56C4OAQ001151@mist.nodomain> <200406072050.22859.ben@spooty.net> <200406081908.54609.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:38, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Tuesday 08 June 2004 05:20, Ben Paley wrote: > > But seriously, does any of this suggest a course of action to you? I'm > > planning to try the "set sysid to 0" plan... what if that doesn't work? > > Sounds like an excellent idea. Perhaps windows is seeing the slice as a fs > it knows about but finds it unformatted, so is offering to do that for you. > > So maybe setting sysid to zero (which I think registers as an undefined > slice) will stop windows making the offer. > > Whatever else I can't see how this would make the situation worse. Well, this seems to solve my problem. That is, Windows no longer sees an extra disk, so I guess it won't try to format it! Now I feel happy about letting other people use the computer again... death threats wear out on 10 year olds so quickly... On the other hand, Partition Magic won't run any more - I get "library or disk not open" which seems to me like a typically uninformative Windows error message. Perhaps it's not even connected. Who cares? I can live without partition magic. Thank you all so much for your thoughts and advice, I really appreciate it. Cheers, Ben
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