Partition Management

[Reindl Harald]

Am 02.12.2011 03:01, schrieb Mark Panen:
> On 02/12/2011 03:55, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
>> Windows setup craps out with an
>> error message saying the drive is corrupted.  The best I can figure is
>> that it can't for some reason overwrite Fedora.
>>
>> Any clues on how to clear enough space for Windows or erase the disk so
>> I can make it a dual boot in the normal fashion?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mike D.
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda with a live linux cd.

there is no need to wait hours overwrite the whole disk

"dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1" overwrites the whole MBR
and partition table as the "bs=512 count=!" can be used to clone it
on a new disk for replace a software-raid-drive

BTW: /dev/hda will not exist in recent kernels, it's /dev/sda

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