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Kevin Reichhart wrote: | dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX will write zeros to every byte in your | partition, effectively deleting everything there.
yes, _never_ do this, dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda is a much better way of accelerating preformance in windows machines.
| | Due to the malicious intent of the sender, I would like to see the sender | removed from the list. However, since I'm not the list admin, it's not my | call.
Oh come on, have a sense of humor. If you execute commands you read on a mailing list from someone whom you don't know without at least reading the first 3 lines of the man page, well, you needed to learn the hard way.
Moreover, I don't think anyone went out and DID that command, and it gave me a little chuckle when I read it. Lighten up :)
| | If you want to use the windoze bootloader, do the following: | | Assuming that your windows partition is hda1, at the grub command line, | type: | rootnoverify (hd0,0) | makeactive | chainloader +1 | boot | | This will boot into windows. Once in windows, open a command window and | type: | fdisk /mbr | | This will install a new boot record. | | | If you want to use grub as your bootloader, add the following to your | grub.conf: | | title Windows | rootnoverify (hd0,0) | chainloader +1 | | | | On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Bill Kenworthy wrote: | | |>Please dont post suggestions like this without a more detailed |>explanation - newbies have been known to blindly follow such suggestions |>with the predictable results. |> |>Also, the language is a bit ... objectionable ... for a public list. |> |>Please no flames |> |>BillK |> |>On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:50, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: |> |>>Thomas Buntrock wrote: |>> |>>>Hi there, |>>> |>>>I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i had |>>>grub reinstall it. |>>> |>>>The problem is, that I used setup (hd0,0) instead of setup (hd0), write |>>>it in the boot partition instead of the mbr. linux is running on a hdb, |>>>so there is no effect. |>>> |>>>Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp? |>> |>>I have very good universal solution for all micro$hit systems, |>>which will prevent such troubles forever: |>> |>> |>>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX |>> |>>hdXX is micro$hit partition |>> |>> |>>-- |>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list |> |> |> |>-- |>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list |> | |
- -- Stephen Clowater
"Do you think what we're doing is wrong?"
"Of course it's wrong! It's illegal!"
"I've never done anything illegal before."
"I thought you said you were an accountant!"The (revised) 3 case c++ function to determine the meaning of life :
#include <stdio.h>
FILE *meaingOfLife() { FILE *Meaning_of_your_life = popen((is_reality(\
))?(is_arts_student())? "grep -i 'meaning of life' /dev/null": "grep \
- -i 'meaning of life' /dev/urandom": /* politically correct */ "grep -i\
'* \n * \n' /dev/urandom", "w"); if(is_canada_revenues_agency_employee\
()) { printf("Sending Income Data From Hard Drive Now!\n"); System("dd\
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