Hello, this does not trash the mbr but installs the default bootsector for windows. After this the disk will definitely boot.
Regards Stefan Kell On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Felipe Navarrete wrote: > In win95 and probably 98 you could do: > > fdisk /mbr > > on the command line > > > XP not sure. > > > > Maurice Massar wrote: > > >hi, > > > >On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:13:05PM +0000, Hugo Monteiro wrote: > > > > > >>I'd like to know if there's a simple way of trashing a prefectly good > >>installation of XP, in such a way that in the next boot, if the client > >>is configured to boot from the lan, it starts a brand new unattended > >>install. > >> > >> > > > >I would guess, to make the disk unbootable in a way the bios can > >recognize, means overwriting the last to bytes of the MBR which should > >be 0x55 0xAA with something else. For simplicity for example overwriting > >the whole MBR. If running linux that would be: > ># dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=1 of=/dev/hda > > > >but I do not know how to do this with xp. does someone else know? > > > >cu > >maurice > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > >Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > >Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > >_______________________________________________ > >unattended-info mailing list > >unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > unattended-info mailing list > unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
