winders & MBR

[Net Llama!]

On 08/27/2005 07:35 PM, Robert Hemus wrote:
> I remember something on the list a while ago, but this was what I came
> up with. (this is some thing I won't put up with. W. Churchill?)
> 
> <I remember setups like this from the eD2.4(or was it 2.3) days.  I had
> one.  
> Please note:  To remove Boot Magic, you _have_ to use the tool in
> Windows.  
> Using fdisk /mbr or similar will not remove it from the boot sector, but
> just 
> mess it up.  I'm not exactly sure of the answer to your question, but
> I'll 
> echo Ben by saying be careful.  Have a boot disk handy.  Make sure it
> works.  
> Those that run multiple OS's here can probably correct me if I'm wrong,
> but 
> couldn't you just have lilo written to /dev/sda's mbr and have that
> control 
> access to all OS's without having lilo written to each drive?
> 
> Jim>
> 
> I need to have a winders partition so I can use the software for my new
> insulin pump.  All of the hard drives I have hace caldera dr-dos MBRs
> stuck on 'em and I can't seem to delete them or over write 'em.  One of
> the old Linux distros I used used to have Partition Magic on it and I
> think I could get it removed with that?  Any bosy have an answer for
> me?? I'd be most thankful.

You're saying that installing Windows isn't overwriting the MBR??

At any rate, dd should let you zero it out:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=384

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