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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!nic.hookup.net!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak!brian From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Fdisk to remove NetBSD partitions? Date: 8 Dec 93 19:35:53 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <BRIAN.93Dec8193553@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <1993Dec2.081626.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk In-reply-to: wilsonm@vaxb.acs.unt.edu's message of Thu, 2 Dec 1993 14:16:26 GMT In article <1993Dec2.081626.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> wilsonm@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes: I remember reading somewhere that you could run something like fdisk /mbr and then reformat a disk so that DOS could be reinstalled. I have decided to remove NetBSD from a pc I have and I cannot seem to get this command to work. I looked through the install notes and can't seem to find any referance to this /mbr command. What is the proper command to run fdisk with to restore the master boot record? (i.e. remove a NetBSD partition type so a DOS type can be defined). The /mbr bit isn't documented, but overwrites the boot record and _not_ the partition table. Fdisk will remove the BSD partition in one of the menus. Brian. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>