Hi,
take a look at the source for RAWRITENT.EXE. It is included in Slackware
("http://www.slackware.com";), a wellknown Linux-distribution, and you
probably only have to change the check that a removable drive is the
target.
But I think that you have to be administrator on that machine and most
antivirus programms should disable these writes to the MBR.
Regards
Stefan Kell
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Maurice Massar wrote:
> 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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