how to wipe MBR on slave drive from windows?

Ebenonce · 08-15-2004, 03:57 AM

The Ubject line says it all, I cannot wipe the MBR from DOS cause I do not have dos, an' I have no working A drive, only way I see is oif there are any windows utilities that let you wipe an MBR from windows, anyone can help me, that would be great. I want it completely blank.

masand · 08-15-2004, 04:06 AM

all windows utlilities wipe out th mbr and then again rewrite the new MBR

for what purpose do u require this ????

regards

Ebenonce · 08-15-2004, 04:58 AM

Formatting a hard drive form win XP doesn' not change the MBR at all

masand · 08-15-2004, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ebenonce
Formatting a hard drive form win XP doesn' not change the MBR at all

what do u mean by the above
also u cannot see the MBR in winXP and winxp will not alow to format all the drives in ur system

regards
gaurav

turtle1980 · 08-15-2004, 11:10 AM

boot up with a floppy..type:
fdisk /mbr
should take care of it

masand · 08-15-2004, 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by turtle1980
boot up with a floppy..type:
fdisk /mbr
should take care of it

the abve will rewrite the windows bootlloader to the MBR
it will keep it clear

regards

gaurav

Crayzie · 08-15-2004, 01:26 PM

fdisk /mbr

will clear out the mbr

masand · 08-15-2004, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Crayzie
fdisk /mbr

will clear out the mbr

correct me if i am wrong here that the above will first clear the MBR and then rewrite the windows MBR to it,it will not keep it empty

regards

Ebenonce · 08-16-2004, 02:31 AM

some of y9ou obviously did not read the fact that I cannot boot from an A drive because I do not have an A drive, also I wanna clear the MBR on a slave drive with no OS on it.

jomen · 08-16-2004, 02:57 AM

dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1

! substitute your device-name for of=/dev/hdb !