Old Packard Bell/MBR
 

Ive got an old packard bell i was hoping to use. I am unable to erase the MBR. I booted an old slackware cd and it would not let me using fdisk.

are there any other ways to erase the mbr?

thanks

You shouldn't really need to erase the mbr - just overwriting it during the install of a new bootloader should work. If you want to zero it you can try:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

well its weird, its like packard bell has it locked somehow...is this possible? anything that isnt a packard bell disc wont be read. I dont think this is possible, but ive never been unable to write to a disk like this before. the previous OS was the packard bell version of winders 98.

Look in BIOS form boot virus protection and turn it off

-Joey

ah thanks a bunch

did it work?

-Joey