how to wipe MBR on slave drive from windows?
 

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.

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

for what purpose do u require this ????

regards

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

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

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

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.

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

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