[Linux-Anyway] Re: Windblows total screw up
- From: Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:05:39 +0200
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:51:51 +0100, John Richard Smith
<bagsofchoice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OK, I've done that from rescue terminal, like this,
>
> ss if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
>
> which returned,
> 1+0 records in
> 1+0 records out
>
> OK, I think ?
Yes.
> Whether it be dos fdisk ot PM8 both still think I have two
> HD's when I only have the one.
> first drive 117gigs
> second drive 65gigs
They think you have 2 hard disks or 2 volumes on the same hard disk?
> So something else must still be lurking around somewhere to
> cause these apps to read this way, I think.
>
> I'm not sure if maybe I still have a problem.
> What do people think
Maybe you ought to wipe much more of the disk than just the MBR and master
partition table. Try clobbering about 50 megs of disk, which should wipe
everything out:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1048576 count=50
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