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Old January 15th, 2005, 10:17 AM
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remove the freebsd bootmanager
I installed FreeBSD on my system, X-Windows didn't work, it said: x connection to 0:0 broken
and said and killed or something like that..

So un-dualbooted my system and now I'm just left removing the the bootmanager. You can hardly call it that though because it only says
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F1 ???

So I press F1 and get into Windows XP again.

Anyways, I guess the bootmanager is in the MBR because I destroyed the whole partition and merged it the free space with a NTFS partition. Don't know if I should ask in here since I don't have FreeBSD on my system anymore. Would FDISK/MBR help? I read it would not destroy any information on my harddisk, not sure if it really doesn't.
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Yes, FDISK/MBR or FDISK /MBR is the right command to clean
the mbr.
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hey thanks for helping but FDISK says something like: can't save previous MBR, unsuccessful

something like that, at least the can't save part..
tried both commands btw (which should not matter anyway)

what do I do now?
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what do I do now?

Well, I realy don't know, the FDISK/MBR command always
worked for me (for freebsd and linux too).
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hey thanks, I got it now, I downloaded fixmbr and it did what I wanted.
FDISK/MBR didn't work because I run Windows XP.
I think I could have ran fixmbr on the Windows XP Restore CD too but this worked like a charm.
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this is on the Windows CD: fixmbr
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