Your right it will just boot to a default........ I thought it just erased it. True :)
Stefan Kell wrote:
Hello,
this does not trash the mbr but installs the default bootsector for windows. After this the disk will definitely boot.
Regards
Stefan Kell
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Felipe Navarrete wrote:
In win95 and probably 98 you could do:
fdisk /mbr
on the command line
XP not sure.
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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