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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!panix!cmcl2!acf2!liuyu From: liuyu@acf2.nyu.edu (liuyu) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Help. Can't erase 386BSD active partition. Date: 11 Jan 1994 07:22:31 GMT Organization: New York University Lines: 17 Message-ID: <2gtk3n$9dm@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: acf2.nyu.edu Hi, Long time ago, I installed 386BSD on a 120meg IDE drive. Later I erased 386BSD, at least I thought I did, and used the drive as a slave IDE drive with two DOS partitions. Now I'm trying to make the drive master IDE drive. I erased both DOS partitions and created one active DOS partiton. I format the drive with system (format c: /s ). But when I tried to boot from this drive, the old 386BSD pops out saying some 386BSD file was missing. What's going on here? If I boot from floppy A: drive, I can go to C: and everything is there. Can anyone tell me how to really erase the old 386BSD and make my computer boot from C:? Thanks for any help. PS, I searched through FAQ but didn't find anything related to this.