On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:24:31AM +1000, Rowdy wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> > Gang,
> >
> > A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K
> > on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid having
> > to buy a DOS/Win platform. I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu
> > on this one machine. For various reasons I need one DOS machine.
> > (Already have 7 or 8 *Nix servers.) The Windows 2000
> > "Professional" CD find some other non-Windows partition and
> > press "D" and "L" as I will, the installation CD keeps
> > complaining. Eventually I have to hit F3 to quit. So, nutshell,
> > is there any way I can completely remove any trace of *Nix?
> > -----I remember having a DOS floppy and typing an undocumented
> > MBR \ command that wiped the drive clean of this boot record,
> > but this was [mumble] years ago.
> >
> > thanks for any tips, y'all,
> >
> > gary
> >
> >
>
> fdisk /mbr
>
> Rowdy
Well, I thought this would work, no-sweat. But I tried it
(on the target server [ Ubuntu ]) as root, and got
"/mbr not found"
so I'm guessing you mean the DOS fdisk; the thing with the
undocumented feature. But I have not had/used DOS/Win-3.11
since 1993.
thanks for the idea.
gary
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