Rick,
Thank you for this bit of info. I have used ZAP in the past as a last ditch
effort. I still
have it stored if you need it.
Yes, did suspect the hd had been previously in ntfs.
Once I got DRDOS into its' Extended Mode, I was able to kill the partition
and reset
the MBR (I think). Even with this, the burned CD still failed. It appears
the the oem
version of Nero I have (6.0) does not handle an ISO properly. Once I
erased the CD
again and used the proggy from Tharin, the CD boots and I'm off in
FreeNAS-land.
Best,
Duncan
At 08:26 12/20/2007 -0500, you wrote:
I know from several other replies that you have solved this problem.
"Burning the wrong type disk..."
You saw the error you did because the HD was not FULLY erased...
Some erase utilities do not go "close enough" to the beginning of the disk
to "get it all"...
This is sometimes why people have trouble getting a "clean install"
on a HD "they think" was put back into factory condition (?actually?blank?...)
When I want an HD fully erased (not "security erased", just the section
I am refering to), I have always used one fo the VERY old programs from
IBM, ---- ZAP or WIPE... It is getting harder to find them since I'm pretty
sure ZAP only does 128 sectors (or clusters??) and Wipe only does up to
8G, and there is NO security section at all...
FW/iW... Rick G
----- Original Message ----- From: "DHSinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Hardware Group" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:39 PM
Subject: [H] Playing?
What do I need to add to my cdrw to get it to read and play?
Have cd burned with a dot-iso for FreeNAS. Yes, know it is FreeBSD based.
OK.
The cd seems to be missing some (?) boot loader. Which one?
Am getting the following msg:
Verifying DMI Pool Data.............
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: Failure....
NTLDR is missing
Press CAD to restart
Where do I start? No idea why IT looks for NTLDR. The hard drive has been
erased!
Perhaps I need to format it yet again........from MSDOS.... :)
It is only 1.08GB in size, and, is really old......but still kicking....
I'll be up most of the night with this one.
Best,
Duncan
