From: urlichs@smurfnbg.smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Subject: Re: DOS FDISK trashed my partition table, can I save my Linux on /de Date: 14 Aug 1993 15:54:48 +0200
In comp.os.linux, article <1wB28B1w165w@xivic.bo.open.de>,
ws@xivic.bo.open.de (Wolfgang Schelongowski) writes:
> 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 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.
>
I know that. Ralf's article says "clear the partition table"
and that's exactly what the above command does.
Yes, I have tried the above command -- formatting a disk initializes
all blocks with hex 5A or some such and the Linux fdisk doesn't like
that at all.
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