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Re: [Bug-grub] Re: windows boot sector recover?
From: |
Jason Thomas |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-grub] Re: windows boot sector recover? |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:14:11 +1000 |
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:27:07PM +0300, address@hidden wrote:
>
> <snip>
> |1.Zero out MBR. (but not all of it!) You need to use 'dd' to erase the
> |MBR. For my machine the command was:
> |
> | dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
> |
> | Why the 'bs=446'? Because the rest of your MBR holds the
> | partition table for the drive... which you do not want to destroy.
> | (note how 'hda' in this context refers to the MBR where, in general,
> | 'hda' is the first hard drive in your system)
> </snip>
>
> Could the above trick solve my problem? I mean, if I have understood
> correctly, an "fdisk /mbr" replaces the MBR and destroys the partition
> table. Given the fact that the partition table on the MBR can be easily
> recreated by installing a boot manager (i.e. *BSD's), the above "dd"
> command would not help that much.
I think fdisk /mbr does not overwrite enough!
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