On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:52 am, you wrote: > > DOS FDISK /MBR writes a brand new boot sector, nothing more, nothing > less. It doesn't know anything about anything other than writing a new > boot sector. The new boot sector on subsequent boots will shift control > to the active partition by loading that partition's boot sector, nothing > more, nothing less. It knows nothing about any operating systems or file > systems, only shifting control to a boot sector from an active > partition.
It was't clear form the above, but be aware that the _partition table_ is not re-written, cleared or touched in any way by the MS "fdisk /mbr" command. If your intent is to remove non-DOS partitions, best use Linux fdisk to delete them first. The MS fdisk will not be able to edit the partition table for non-DOS partitions, hence will not be able to remove them. Hoyt
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