[TriLUG] need to rein in WinXP

John Beimler john at radiomind.com
Fri Apr 4 07:34:01 EST 2003


Lee Fickenscher wrote:

>AFAIK, fdisk won't cut it as overlay (I believe) gets installed in that
>magic 1st sector or whatever it is... fdisk /mbr would prolly work
>though I'm not sure
>
>  
>
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=1

will cure all your ills.  Be very careful that its the right hard drive, 
or you'll have a long hard job rebuilding the disk label and partition 
table.

Peace.

john





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