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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Subject: Re: Restoring the MBR to DOS only
Organization: Private Site, Member of Individual Network e. V.
Message-ID: <DDC3Lw.97F@theatre.pandora.sax.de>
References: <40npf0$j1g@giga.bga.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 04:10:44 GMT
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In article <40npf0$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?
You're a poor guy. Do you really need to reinstall DOS on that
machine? You have a poor machine. :-) Usually it's the other way
around: people put a machine to an operating-system-only machine
(what was it with that semi-intelligent interrupt handler?)
Boot from a DOS disk, enter FDISK /MBR and messy DOS will write a
new MBR to the 1st disk in the system. Then re-partition it - you
can even use DOS'es FDISK to remove the FreeBSD partition.
This is really an MS-DOS specific question.
Bye,
Martin
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