Re: XP won't boot after knoppix 3.4 hdinstall

Orson Jones wrote:
> Joris Huizer wrote:
> 
>> Is there any brute force program to *completely* rewrite everything to 
>> do with the MBR for XP?
> 
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
> 
> Blatantly copied from http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue63/okopnik.html
> 
> Note this will remove any partition information also.
> 
> Orson Jones

Thanks that solved the problem that *braindead XP* had.

  I guess we'll buy another harddisk for linux as *windows can't deal 
with partitions* - thanks to windows we're forced to buy more hardware 
again...

Thanks to everyone for your help getting out of the mess!

Joris

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