former windows 7 boot manager still showing

[Raf Roger]

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-list at 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
>
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