On 12/28/09, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
How is this rewrite correct?
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corrupted by a virus. Microsoft/Windows provides no native method of
selecting which partition to boot from in a multiple partition allocation.
Windows NT and XP both use a built-in boot loader that can be
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:29:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au
wrote:
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On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:04:57 +0800 Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
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All of these, at least from DOS
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:24:40 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
I have the win98 fdisk english version. I tested this and the fdisk
program displays just the drive letter with out the :. Now on the DOS
command line you do have to use the : to change to different drive, like
in to
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:29:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au
wrote:
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 291, Issue 3, Message: 1
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:04:57 +0800 Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
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First up, you'd
How is this rewrite correct?
Users with Microsoft/Windows knowledge of how a hard drive is configured
may have a terminology issue with FreeBSD. Microsoft/Windows and FreeBSD
use the word partition to mean different (but related) things.
The Microsoft/Windows fdisk program is used to
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:04:57 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
The Microsoft/Windows fdisk program is used to allocate partitions on
the hard drive. This program allocated two types of partitions “primary
dos partition” and “extended dos partition”.
Just a formal addition: primary
Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:04:57 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
The Microsoft/Windows fdisk program is used to allocate partitions on
the hard drive. This program allocated two types of partitions “primary
dos partition” and “extended dos partition”.
Just a formal
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 291, Issue 3, Message: 1
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:04:57 +0800 Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
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First up, you'd be better off using a non-Windows charset here, as they
use weird characters just for
