former windows 7 boot manager still showing

Mikkel L. Ellertson mellertson at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 19:09:00 UTC 2013


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> Raf,
>
> Please don't top post, it makes it difficult to follow the thread.
>
> Next, do you happen to have a 2nd hard drive in the machine you
are trying to boot (perhaps that has the Windows boot loader on
> it?)? How big is the drive you are trying to dd? Try any one of
these to get to a non-bootable drive:
>
> To wipe just the MBR:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo bs=512 count=1
>
Just remember - this will delete the partition table as well, so you
may want to write down the partition table data before doing this!
>
> To wipe all of track zero:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo bs=512 count=63
>
> "Zero out" the entire drive:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo
>
> You'll need to replace foo with the appropriate device (hda, sda,
etc).
>
> Kevin
>
Mikkel
- -- 
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