Re: erasing the MBR

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On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 02:47:11PM +0530, Rada and Gus wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I need to erase the MBR on my RH8, Win XP (single hdd) dual boot system.   I 
> can not use fdisk /mbr    from my windows XP installation.  I tried booting 
> into windows safe mode command prompt, but it does not recognize fdisk as a 
> valid commnand.  I know there is a way to do this from linux, but I've looked 
> in vain everywhere - can't remember where I've seen it.
> 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
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