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- From: Tim Hurman <kano-tlug@example.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:59:15 +0900 (JST)
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, SN_Diamond wrote: > Tim Hurman wrote: > > > > broken partition table, zero the MBR, and start over. > > > > easier, boot a set of dos disks and type > > As was already pointed out, this couldn't be accomplished. I pointed out > one possible reason why, and someone else has pointed out other possible > reasons why. Anyway, next: IIRC we had only inferred that it was impossible to boot Win2k and Linux, and not DOS...Unless I missed a post. > > > fdisk /mbr > > which will overwrite any and all mbr information. > > Wrong. fdisk /mbr will overwrite the boot code in the MBR (for example > removing lilo) but it will not overwrite other information in the MBR. For > example if a valid partition table is in place then it remains in place, not > zeroed. For example if a broken partition table is in place then it remains > in place, not zeroed and not repaired. Ok, so I am wrong here. However if DOS had os booted it would have been possible to remove partitions etc. Also some BIOSes have a nice "low level format" util, although I cant remember if they are just SCSI BIOSes. Anyway, it's fixed now. Tim.
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