Re: [debian-knoppix] XP won't boot after knoppix 3.4 hdinstall

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Subject: Re: [debian-knoppix] XP won't boot after knoppix 3.4 hdinstall
From: Orson Jones <orsonj@bookstore.usu.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:13:02 -0600
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Joris Huizer wrote:

Is there any brute force program to *completely* rewrite everything todo with the MBR for XP?


dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

Blatantly copied from http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue63/okopnik.html

Note this will remove any partition information also.

Orson Jones

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