formatting hd using RH
is there a way to clear EVERYTHING with redhat, including the mbr? if so, how do I do it?
I'm trying to get rid of grub as I can't load XP...unfortunately fdisk /mbr doesn't want to work after I boot with a win98se cd :scratch: ?? who knows what the hell is happening. any ideas? thanks |
Try dd
man dd ;) |
>>Try dd
sorry, but I am still a linux n00b...could you elaborate on that a little bit more. A ran the --help and man pages for the command but couldn't make heads or tails out of it. |
Here is a very good explanation:
http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/n...00000000000000 it is only a part of thr Rute project: http://rute.sourceforge.net/ |
ok I think I get it: will this command do the trick?
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 |
well I used that command from above....and it looked like it did clear the mbr, as GRUB no longer showed up. I reinstalled windows and thought everything is going well....I rebooted and again the same thing but with out the GRUB> prompt....just a blinking underscore. any ideas....btw, I'm using knoppix now
|
what about simply:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda |
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:54 PM. |