hi,

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:13:05PM +0000, Hugo Monteiro wrote:
> I'd like to know if there's a simple way of trashing a prefectly good
> installation of XP, in such a way that in the next boot, if the client
> is configured to boot from the lan, it starts a brand new unattended
> install.

I would guess, to make the disk unbootable in a way the bios can
recognize, means overwriting the last to bytes of the MBR which should
be 0x55 0xAA with something else. For simplicity for example overwriting
the whole MBR. If running linux that would be:
# dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=1 of=/dev/hda

but I do not know how to do this with xp. does someone else know?

cu
maurice


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