Re: Removing FreeBSD

2008-02-02 Thread Kemian Dang
Bnw CmpRpr 写道: Hi. I recently purchased a HDD from a man that runs a data center, and on this HDD is FreeBSD. My problem is I want it off, and for some ungodly reason, it keeps coming back. I cant format the drive with Windows, and I cant load it as a slave to format, either. Any help would

Re: Removing FreeBSD

2008-02-02 Thread Gerard
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:55:59 -0800 (PST) Bnw CmpRpr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I recently purchased a HDD from a man that runs a data center, and on this HDD is FreeBSD. My problem is I want it off, and for some ungodly reason, it keeps coming back. I cant format the drive with Windows, and

Re: Removing FreeBSD

2008-02-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
Hi. I recently purchased a HDD from a man that runs a data center, and on this HDD is FreeBSD. My problem is I want it off, and for some ungodly reason, it keeps coming back. I cant format the drive with Windows, and I cant load it as a slave to format, either. Any help would be greatly

Re: Removing FreeBSD

2008-02-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 07:44:10PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bnw CmpRpr wrote: Hi. I recently purchased a HDD from a man that runs a data center, and on this HDD is FreeBSD. My problem is I want it off, and for some ungodly reason, it

Re: Removing FreeBSD

2008-02-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bnw CmpRpr wrote: Hi. I recently purchased a HDD from a man that runs a data center, and on this HDD is FreeBSD. My problem is I want it off, and for some ungodly reason, it keeps coming back. I cant format the drive with Windows, and I cant load it

Re: Removing FreeBSD

2008-02-01 Thread Chris
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:55:59 -0800 (PST) Bnw CmpRpr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I recently purchased a HDD from a man that runs a data center, and on this HDD is FreeBSD. My problem is I want it off, and for some ungodly reason, it keeps coming back. I cant format the drive with Windows, and

Re: Removing FreeBSD

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bnw CmpRpr wrote: Hi. I recently purchased a HDD from a man that runs a data center, and on this HDD is FreeBSD. My problem is I want it off, and for some ungodly reason, it keeps coming back. I cant format the drive with

Re: Removing FreeBSD

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Bnw CmpRpr wrote: Hi. I recently purchased a HDD from a man that runs a data center, and on this HDD is FreeBSD. My problem is I want it off, and for some ungodly reason, it keeps coming back. I cant format the drive with Windows, and I cant load it as a slave to format, either. Any help

Re: removing freebsd bootloader

2005-06-23 Thread Micheal Patterson
Paulo Roberto wrote: Hello, How do I remove the FreeBSD bootloader from the MBR without touching the slices? I do have an active WinXP primary slice that I would like to boot from directly. thank you, Paulo __ Discover Yahoo! Have fun

Re: removing freebsd bootloader

2005-06-23 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2005 19:25 schrieb Paulo Roberto: Hello, How do I remove the FreeBSD bootloader from the MBR without touching the slices? Without warranty, but fdisk -B should do the trick. I think it keeps the partition table and replaces the boot code of the MBR. Make sure the XP

Re: removing freebsd bootloader

2005-06-23 Thread Paulo Roberto
Thanks to everyone! I will perform the surgery tonight... best regards, Paulo __ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: removing freebsd bootloader

2005-06-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-06-23 19:31, Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2005 19:25 schrieb Paulo Roberto: Hello, How do I remove the FreeBSD bootloader from the MBR without touching the slices? Without warranty, but fdisk -B should do the trick. I think it keeps the

Re: Removing FreeBSD from my machine

2004-07-21 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
--- mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do remove freebsd from my machine? I want to format the drive to install windows xp. Thanks, Mark Estes I'm afraid you can no longer remove freebsd from your system. Specially if it will be replaced by a Windows operating system. It was intelegently

Re: Removing FreeBSD from my machine

2004-07-21 Thread Dee Gaans
Or you can use a tool like fdisk or partition magic or gdisk.. Dee --- Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do remove freebsd from my machine? I want to format the drive to install windows xp. Thanks, Mark Estes I'm afraid you can

Re: Removing FreeBSD

2004-07-21 Thread Joey Mingrone
On July 21, 2004 07:35, Wojciech Puchar wrote: How do remove freebsd from my machine? I want to format the drive to install windows xp. 1) don't post without subject 2) boot any usix from floppy or CD, get to shell and use dd to wipe out beginning of disk with FreeBSD dd if=/dev/zero

Re: Removing FreeBSD

2004-07-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
with FreeBSD dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=64k count=1 with linux replace ad0 with hda, with NetBSD use rwd0d. 3) install windoze or any OS as with empty drive. PS. i assumed your hard drive is on first IDE channel master. or just start the xp install. The installer