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 be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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You mean can not see it under windows explorer or when formatting, there 
are something wrong? If the later, what's the error msg.
If you can not see it under explorer, maybe you can try diskmgmt.msc to 
find it.


Are you sure the disk is in good condition?
Can you boot to the freebsd?

And what do you mean by keeps coming back...
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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 I cant load it as a slave to format, either. Any help
 would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

I am sure that you will receive several suggestion on how to achieve
your goal. You might want to visit http://www.freedos.org/ and download
a copy of FreeDos. Install it on a floppy disk and use it to nuke your
HD. You can even repartition it, format it, etc. It works well as a
simple utility program. The documentation sort of sucks; however, it
really isn't that difficult to figure out.

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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
 appreciated. Thanks

There's nothing magical about freebsd on a drive. It's just like
Linux, Windows, MacOS, etc. and it comes off in the same manner. There
were a lot of good suggestions here, but rather than giving you a new
toy to play with in fixin the issue, can I ask which program/utility
you are trying to use to remove it? When you say you cant load it as a
slave, do you mean it's not showing up in the bios/post, it's showing
up in the bios/post but not the OS you are using to format it (I'm
assuming windows, is that correct - in this case, are you looking for
it under My Computer or are you looking for it under [rightclick My
Computer]-Manage-[Drive Management, or whatever it is called, not
currently on a windows box to follow the path right now]?

Thanks,
-Jim Stapleton
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Re: Removing FreeBSD

2008-02-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 07:44:10PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:

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 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 would
 be greatly appreciated. Thanks
  -
  M White
  Black and White Computer Repair
 
 
 
 The following assumes the drive is /dev/ad0 (the OS name for it) and
 it is modern enough to not get confused by a low level format... boot
 in single user mode (item 4 on the menu) and at the command line do:
 
 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=1
 
 This will clear the MBR partition table and make the machine think it
 is a brand new drive.
 

THis should work OK.
You might want to download the disk 1 ISO and burn a CD and
use it to boot and run the fixit to run the dd command as above.
If it is not ad0, it might be da0 (if it is SCSI or SAS) 
It could also be ad1 or da1 if it is the second disk in the system - 
not disks are numbered starting at 0.

jerry


 
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Re: Removing FreeBSD

2008-02-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
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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 would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks
 -
 M White
 Black and White Computer Repair



The following assumes the drive is /dev/ad0 (the OS name for it) and
it is modern enough to not get confused by a low level format... boot
in single user mode (item 4 on the menu) and at the command line do:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=1

This will clear the MBR partition table and make the machine think it
is a brand new drive.


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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 I cant load it as a slave to format, either. Any help
 would be greatly appreciated. Thanks - M White Black and White
 Computer Repair

Ensure that the jumpers are set correctly and or is in the proper
cable pattern (if using CS) if you intend on using it as a slave for
Windows (XP I assume) Once that is done, WindowsXP has no issues seeing
the drive but must be formatted. 

Here again, WindowsXP (assuming) can and will reformat a drive that has
been used by FreeBSD.

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Re: Removing FreeBSD

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse

Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:

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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 would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks

-
M White
Black and White Computer Repair




The following assumes the drive is /dev/ad0 (the OS name for it) and
it is modern enough to not get confused by a low level format... boot
in single user mode (item 4 on the menu) and at the command line do:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=1

This will clear the MBR partition table and make the machine think it
is a brand new drive.



I reckon he's smart enough to find the freebsd list and smart enough to 
ask the right question, so he's smart enough to appreciate FreeBSD. So 
he should leave it on there :P


Still in case previous attempts at formatting have removed the OS he 
could try Darik's Boot and Nuke floppy/usb/cd http://dban.sourceforge.net/.


Chris
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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 would be greatly appreciated. Thanks


the devils operating system can only be removed if you drill with a 
6.6mm drill a hole 66.6 mm from top and 66.6mm from left through the 
drive from the top measured from the top left corner.


But I also wonder why Windows' fdisk does not allow you to remove the 
partition and then create a new Windows partition. If you simply add to 
the currently installed FreeBSD partition, you will not get very far.


It might be of interest what kind of data are stored there. Has NSA a 
copy of it?

-
M White
Black and White Computer Repair


are you sure?

Erich





  

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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



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Start up with the WinXP install cd, go into console repair mode and run 
fixmbr to intall the standard WinXP loader settings on the primary 
drive. Doing so will prevent you from being able to boot from any other 
drive however until / unless another boot manager is enabled on the 
primary drive.


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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 
slice is marked active, and copy the fdisk output so you can restore it if 
anything goes wrong.

-Harry


 I do have an active WinXP primary slice that I would like to boot from
 directly.

 thank you,

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Re: removing freebsd bootloader

2005-06-23 Thread Paulo Roberto
Thanks to everyone! I will perform the surgery tonight...

best regards,

Paulo




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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
 partition table and replaces the boot code of the MBR. Make sure the XP
 slice is marked active, and copy the fdisk output so you can restore it if
 anything goes wrong.

Correct.  You might want to use:

# fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr

to make sure BootEasy is not installed instead of a plain MBR.

Summing it all up in steps, something like the following would be fine:

1. Make sure the correct partition is 'active'.

# fdisk -u /dev/ad0

2. Install plain MBR boot code:

# fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr

3. Reboot

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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 made to be that
way. You will have to purchase yourself another
harddisk to completely get rid of it.(lol)

Anyway, just use your XP installer to delete the
freebsd partition and create your new windows
partition.

Goodluck with windows then!!









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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 no longer remove freebsd from
 your
 system. Specially if it will be replaced by a
 Windows
 operating system. It was intelegently made to be
 that
 way. You will have to purchase yourself another
 harddisk to completely get rid of it.(lol)
 
 Anyway, just use your XP installer to delete the
 freebsd partition and create your new windows
 partition.
 
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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 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 has will ask you if you want 
to wipe the drive.
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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 has will ask you if you want
 to wipe the drive.

possibly - i never installed XP. i just answered question how to wipe out
FreeBSD (or anything)
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