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Old 01-20-2010, 11:52 AM   #16
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Google led me to this thread. After booting from a Debian-based live USB, I "sudo -s" to root before running "dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda bs=440 count=1" to remove the Master Boot Code while leaving the Partition Table alone, but this command did nothing ("0 bytes copied").

Has someone seen this, knows the cause, and some possible cure?

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Old 01-20-2010, 12:20 PM   #17
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For those interested, the right command appears to be "if=/dev/zero", not "if=/dev/null".
 
  


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