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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

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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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