Re: restoring mbr
--- Patrick Ouellette <frizzgrig@netscape.net> wrote: >
> boot into linux (a rescue CD / Knoppix, however)
> as root try
>
> # dd -if =/dev/zerol -of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=10
You're making up command options, as well as devices now?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=10
*BUT* even then, that is poor poor poor advice, and superfluous to the
question being asked.
> This will totally blank the first 5K of space on the drive. The
> "leftovers" from
> the linux boot loader sometimes confuse Windows' installer.
No the way you originally wrote it, alas.
-- Thomas Adam
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