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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
Subject: Re: HELP --- convert a 386bsd partition back to DOS partition
Message-ID: <1993Apr30.145925.6134@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
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References: <1993Apr29.175309.6284@leland.Stanford.EDU> <3378@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 14:59:25 GMT
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In article <3378@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> daemon@bigfoot.first.gmd.de (daemon) writes:
>In article <1993Apr29.175309.6284@leland.Stanford.EDU> richard@ajax.Stanford.EDU (Richard Schiek) writes:
>>
>>I've spent a few days trying to get 386bsd working on my system, and
>>have decided to convert it back to DOS :-(. I had let 386bsd use my
>>entire (100Mb) c: drive. Now if use DOS to make a new primary dos
>
>If you are using MS-DOS 5.0, you must use the command "fdisk /mbr"
>to write a new so called "master boot record" on the drive.
>I don't know in the moment, if this wipes out the partition, so
>better look first with "fdisk" on your partition table and
>save the numbers on paper, do the "fdisk /mbr" and if has
>wiped out the partition table, create it new with the saved
>numbers.
>
>
All this seems to do is update booting information.
A while back, I had to put DOS back on a formerly 386bsd hard disk,
re-partitioned the disk, and re-formatted it, and ran sys.com on it.
It still wouldn't boot, so I ran fdisk /mbr, and after that it was
fine---All the partitioning and formatting had remained.
Toodlepip!
Marc 'em.
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