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- From: kspousta@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Kevin Spousta)
- Subject: Re: Help needed to remove 386bsd off of a 386
- Message-ID: <kspousta.724383404@qualcom>
- Keywords: Won't work with just a high level foramt
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 01:36:44 GMT
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- pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes:
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- >In article <3506@carroll1.cc.edu> sander@carroll1.cc.edu (Scott Anderson) writes:
- >>I recently decided to move 386bsd to a better machine and as part of the
- >>deal, I have to put MS-DOS back on the machine. I've tried the docs
- >>exactly and then complete formats of the hard drive etc, all to no avail,
- >>I keep getting an error message saying the it is upset that it can't find
- >>386bsd at boot time and that continues in an infinite loop. I thought
- >>maybe I'd try a low level format, but my manual says "Low level formats
- >>should only be done by qualified personell." :)
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- >If you have an IDE drive then a low-level is a last resort to resurrect
- >a trashed drive. I wouldn't advise it unless you know what you're doing.
- >If you do not have an IDE drive, then you can probably low level it with
- >relative impunity.
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- >However, if you haven't tried to do "FDISK /MBR" to nuke the boot record,
- >I suggest you try that first. (That is, do FDISK /MBR in DOS, not 386BSD
- >and it will write you a new boot record for DOS.)
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- I tried the fdisk /mbr bit when I attempted to remove BSD and I still kept
- getting the "Can't find 386BSD" error. I finally made a DOS boot Disk and put
- Norton's Disk Editor on it and manually edited the boot sector. I filled up sector 0 with null values and then FDISK'ed. Worked like a charm..
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