i tried it and still have the windows boot manager when my HDD boot :( instead of having "system not found" (which is the typicall message when boot sector is not found in windows)
any other idea than "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1" ? i also tried with bs=512, but still not successfull :( On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Raf Roger <raf.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > in fact i can delete everything on this HDD as i formatted it...backup was > done before :) > i just found also something similar. > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1 > > where /dev/sda should be replaced by my HDD value. > > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Patrick Lists < > fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> On 01/30/2013 06:13 PM, Raf Roger wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> i formatted my HDD where before i had windows 7 installed, in order to >>> install new fedora 18. >>> however after fedora installation, HDD does not boot on grub but still >>> on former windows boot manager. >>> >>> How ca i do to REALLY remove this stupid windows 7 boot manager ? >>> thx >>> >> >> >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/**questions/linux-newbie-8/** >> using-dd-to-zero-the-mbr-**query-606489/<http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/using-dd-to-zero-the-mbr-query-606489/> >> >> Make sure you don't delete data you do not want to lose. You do have a >> backup of your important data right? >> >> Regards, >> Patrick >> >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/users<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users> >> Guidelines: >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/**Mailing_list_guidelines<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines> >> Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >> > > > > -- > Alain > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Windows 7 x64 / Fedora 17 x64 > MySQL 5.5.28 > Apache 2.4.3 / OpenSSL 1.0.1c > Tomcat 7.17 > PHP 5.4.8 > -- Alain ----------------------------------------------------------- Windows 7 x64 / Fedora 17 x64 MySQL 5.5.28 Apache 2.4.3 / OpenSSL 1.0.1c Tomcat 7.17 PHP 5.4.8
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