[Linux-Anyway] Re: Windblows total screw up
- From: John Richard Smith <bagsofchoice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:17:06 +0100
Godwin Stewart wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:57:17 +0100, John Richard Smith
><bagsofchoice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>How do you clear out an invalid partition table and start again?
>>
>
>Boot into a Linux setup off a CD, then:
>
># dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx bs=512 count=1
>
>Replace "hdx" with the device node of where your drive is plugged in (hda,
>hdb etc...)
>
>This will overwrite the MBR and the master partition table. Your disk will
>be like the day it left the factory.
>
Ah, good man, that's what I wanted, I knew linux would have an answer,
just a question of finding it. Is that a Linux CD1 , like mandrake CD1
---> to rescue , if so will I need to mount the drive, I guess , rescue
terminal in mandrake don't give you much to directly work with, and if
I'm right then I need to create a directoy and the something like,
mount /dev/hda /mnt/temp first ?
John
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