remove linux, and then install Windows XP

[Tom Buskey]

On 4/26/06, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

>
> The following Linux command will clear the MBR (leaving the partition
> table
> alone)
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
> But, you can back up the MBR also:
> dd if=/dev/hda of=<file name> bs=512 count=1
>
> Note that the partition table is in the last 66 bytes of the MBR.
>
> There is a good discussion of the MBR here:
> http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/mbr.htm



Yes, that's it.  I couldn't remember if it was 512 or 2048 and I must've
gotten the CD-ROM blocksize in solaris vs the rest of the world mixed up.


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