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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