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  • From: "David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Ontracks' Dynamic Disk Overlay
  • Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 18:49:03 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> Can I somehow wipe out this monster with dd from BL instead? Where
> might the DDO be located and can I just write zeros over that part?
> Is the MBR the first 1024 bytes, or half that? Could I damage
> anything important, irretrievably, by trying dd if=/dev/zero
> of=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=1?

Could you back up everything and wipe the whole disk instead? Writing
to the MBR is almost guaranteed to destroy any partitioning that you
may have on there.

David

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