[Linux-Anyway] Re: Windblows total screw up

  • From: Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:35:06 +0200

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:17:06 +0100, John Richard Smith
<bagsofchoice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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,

No. You don't need access to any filesystem on the drive so you don't need
to mount it. All you want to do is clobber the first sector on it.

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