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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnewsk!cbnewsj!att-out!walter!qualcom.qualcomm.com!qualcom!kspousta 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 Sender: news@qualcomm.com Nntp-Posting-Host: qualcom.qualcomm.com Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA References: <3506@carroll1.cc.edu> <1fe0glINN6bp@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 01:36:44 GMT Lines: 26 pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes: >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." :) >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. >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.) 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..