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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Restoring the MBR to DOS only
Date: 15 Aug 1995 10:45:54 +0200
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Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>How can I restore the MBR to the original state?
>
>From DOS:
>
>fdisk /mbr
From BSD:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd0 count=100
This will null out the first hundred sectors of your (IDE) hard disk,
make it appear like a virgin disk for any subsequent installation
utility. (Not exactly what you've been asking, but similar in
effect.)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)