Try this:- Be careful with it!
(ie Make sure you are doing the right drive, best not to use in a two drive
system)
How to blow away the Master Boot Record and any partitions of a Hard Disk.
Boot from an MS-DOS diskette that has debug on it.
A>debug
-a
SSSS:0100 mov ax,301
SSSS:0103 mov bx,3800
SSSS:0106 mov es,bx
SSSS:0108 mov bx,0
SSSS:010B mov cx,1
SSSS:010E mov dx,80
SSSS:0111 int 13
SSSS:0113 int 3
SSSS:0114
-g=100
registers appear with result code in AX should be 0001.
-q
done.
More about the mov dx,80 line
80 = C:
81 = D: etc
ES:BX points to a block in memory that the BIOS routine on Interrupt 13H
copies over sector 0 of the hard disk trashing the MBR and partition table.
regards,
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Lowndes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mail List - SLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 8:23 PM
Subject: [SLUG] I hate loosing to Evilware
> I am trying to set up an ext2 file system on a Quantum LPS270 disk, but no
> matter what I do it refuses to co-operate.
>
> If I dd /dev/zero to it then it segfaults or oops'. If I set up a
> partition table and try to mke2fs then it hangs. If I do a mke2fs -c then
> it oops'.
>
> I guess it looks like being a bin job, which will be hard to take as it
> had Evilware running on it before I started.
>
> Has anyone got any suggestions on what else I might try on this piece of
> iron before it gets used for target practice.
>
> Howard.
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