On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Ajay wrote:

> 1. doesn't the master boot record get over-written when a disk is
> re-partitioned after erasing the existing partition. Because I'd

no, that rewrites the partition table, not the MBR.

> 2. FDISK/mbr occassionally does not work? I'd tried this command
> before but it did not click!

It could be that there was already nothing on the mbr.  If whatever you 
were trying to remove was on the boot sector of a particular partition, 
and if that partition were marked active, then the mbr would have 
nothing to do with it.

-- 
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

-PARDOT KYNES, Ecology of Bela Tegeuse, Initial Report to the Imperium


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