[plug] To trash a MBR

Gavin Chester sales at ecosolutions.com.au
Fri Apr 21 16:13:46 WST 2006



   >-----Original Message-----
   >From: Paul Arch [mailto:paul at sdmgroup.com.au]
   >Sent: Friday, 21 April 2006 08:02
   >To: plug at plug.org.au; sales at ecosolutions.com.au
   >Subject: Re: [plug] To trash a MBR
   >
   >
   > >
   >> 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.
   >>
   >> Gavin
   >>
   >>
   >Thanks , in this particular application thankfully windows was not
   >available ;)
   >
   > cheers
   >
   > Paul

Yeh, I was just talking about how I did it a while ago after booting the PC
with a DOS 6 boot disk to reformat a drive - I didn't have a linux
boot/rescue available at the time and just followed the grub howto :-)  Glad
you got it sorted.

Gavin




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