From: ws@xivic.bo.open.de (Wolfgang Schelongowski) Subject: Re: DOS FDISK trashed my partition table, can I save my Linux on /de Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1993 23:51:47 MEST
urlichs@smurfnbg.smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
: In comp.os.linux, article <thiele.4@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de>,
: thiele@MB3.TU-Chemnitz.DE (Ralf Thiele) writes:
: >
: > I had this problem with another program under DOS. fdisk said, there were
: > a dos partition but a try to delete it, didn't work.
: > My Help:
: > I wrote a little program, that clears the Partition Table via BIOS-Int 13h
:
: dd count=1 bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda ## or /dev/sda or whatever
Ever tried that ? That will NUKE your BOOTSTRAPLOADER and the _total_
partition table.
In other words: Your whole disk will be as good as empty. The only
thing to do after you've done that is reformat / fdisk (except if
you made a backup of that sector before and can restore it).
So: KIDS, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME !