[Techtalk] zapping xp

Devdas Bhagat devdas at dvb.homelinux.org
Sat Jul 10 21:16:37 EST 2004


On 10/07/04 07:56 -0500, ed orphan wrote:
> I've got a nice big hard drive, but it has
> been infected by this ugly thing called
> xp.  How do I purge this xp thing and
> end this nice hard drive's suffering?

Boot off a Linux CD and run 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
Removes partition table entries and clears the MBR. Any existing data is
not touched.

Repartition and install Linux, or the Free Os of your choice.

Devdas Bhagat


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