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From: derry@beaufort.sfu.ca (Andrew Derry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Removing 386BSD from the hard disk
Keywords: 386BSD
Message-ID: <derry.711923491@sfu.ca>
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:31:31 GMT
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kwan@netcom.com (Kwan-Seng Low) writes:

>low level format your hard disk.

nono.. don't do that..  just use

fdisk /mbr

that should fix your boot sector.

Cheers
---
Andrew