[Techtalk] "Redeploying" a Linux Box.......

Almut Behrens almut_behrens at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 6 19:54:05 EST 2001


On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:44:53AM -0700, Maureen Seller wrote:
> 
> Long setup, short question:  Can anyone tell me how to effectively "wipe" 
> this disk of its partitioning/formatting information so I can start fresh 
> with a clean install of Winblows?

IIRC, it's "fdisk /mbr" (using the DOS/Win fdisk) to restore a default
master boot record. This will hopefully make other things work again...

Cheers,

- Almut




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