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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Help. Can't erase 386BSD active partition.
Date: 11 Jan 1994 15:38:49 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <2gtk3n$9dm@cmcl2.nyu.edu>, liuyu <liuyu@acf2.nyu.edu> wrote:
>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:? 


	fdisk /mbr c:



							marc 'em.



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