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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!palmer.demon.co.uk!palmer.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Restoring the MBR to DOS only Date: 14 Aug 1995 23:29:38 +0100 Organization: none Lines: 23 Message-ID: <40oioi$3fc@palmer.demon.co.uk> References: <40npf0$j1g@giga.bga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.my.org X-NNTP-Posting-Host: palmer.demon.co.uk In article <40npf0$j1g@giga.bga.com>, <floyd@savant.com> wrote: >I installed FreeBSD 2.0 on a machine that had DOS. >Now I want to put this manchine back to DOS only and I cannont restore >the MBR to the original state. I do not know how to remove the >FreeBSD boot manager, AND I cannot get DOS to boot. The drive is an >EIDE and I cannot do a low level format. >How can I restore the MBR to the original state? From DOS: fdisk /mbr the /mbr switch is undocumented, but it should work. Gary -- FreeBSD Core Member E-Mail: Gary@Palmer.Demon.co.uk, gpalmer@FreeBSD.org