Re: MBR screwed up

2003-03-16 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:29:26 +0100 (CET), Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, dick hoogendijk wrote: master drive, but what do I do to get rid of the old fbsd loader on the second and get a good windows-xp one? On older windozes one would boot from floppy and do a

MBR screwed up

2003-03-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
Neede help urgently. Screwed up my MBR's I have two IDE disks. On the first (master) I have FreeBSD and on the second (slave) Win-XP (with an old fbsd boot0 (mbr). I tried to do a wi fixmbr in win-xp but that changed teh mbr on the first drive, which is inaccesible now ;-(( I want a freebsd

Re: MBR screwed up

2003-03-12 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, dick hoogendijk wrote: master drive, but what do I do to get rid of the old fbsd loader on the second and get a good windows-xp one? On older windozes one would boot from floppy and do a format.exe c: /mbr Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MBR screwed up

2003-03-12 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On older windozes one would boot from floppy and do a format.exe c: /mbr Actually - my memory is fading; that should be fdisk. And a quick man check on WinXP yeilds 'fixmbr' to be the equivalent: fixmbr device name

Re: MBR screwed up

2003-03-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 12 Mar Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: fixmbr device name fixmbr \Device\HardDisk0 without a device name it will write to the boot device. See also the man page for 'fixboot'. Oke, will look into it tomorrow. At the moment I get: F1 FreeBSD F5 Disk 1 And on disk1: F1 (=