[plug] To trash a MBR

[Richard Meyer]

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 16:29 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
>    >-----Original Message-----
>    >From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au]On
>    >Behalf Of Paul Arch
>    >Sent: Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:25
>    >To: plug at plug.org.au
>    >Subject: Re: [plug] To trash a MBR
>    >
>    >
>    >Carl Gherardi wrote:
>    >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/disktonuke bs=512 count=1
>    >>
>    ><snip>
>    >
>    >excellent, thanks !
> 
> Coming to this late and probably not needed ...  
> 
> Long ago the grub manual told me to:
> 
> fdisk /mbr
> 
> hoping my memory of the syntax is correct.

It is - for Windows (and I'm not sure whether that still holds for
versions > 98).
> 
> Gavin 
> 
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