On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Raf Roger <raf.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Kevin Martin <ktm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 01/30/13 12:11, Raf Roger wrote: >> > i tried it and still have the windows boot manager when my HDD boot :( >> instead of having "system not found" (which is the typicall >> > message when boot sector is not found in windows) >> > >> > any other idea than "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1" ? i >> also tried with bs=512, but still not successfull :( >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Raf Roger <raf.n...@gmail.com <mailto: >> raf.n...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Patrick, >> > >> > in fact i can delete everything on this HDD as i formatted >> it...backup was done before :) >> > i just found also something similar. >> > >> > |dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1| >> > >> > where /dev/sda should be replaced by my HDD value. >> > >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Patrick Lists < >> fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl <mailto:fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl>> >> wrote: >> > >> > On 01/30/2013 06:13 PM, Raf Roger wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > i formatted my HDD where before i had windows 7 installed, >> in order to >> > install new fedora 18. >> > however after fedora installation, HDD does not boot on >> grub but still >> > on former windows boot manager. >> > >> > How ca i do to REALLY remove this stupid windows 7 boot >> manager ? >> > thx >> > >> > >> > >> > >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/__questions/linux-newbie-8/__using-dd-to-zero-the-mbr-__query-606489/ >> > < >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/using-dd-to-zero-the-mbr-query-606489/ >> > >> > >> > Make sure you don't delete data you do not want to lose. You do >> have a backup of your important data right? >> > >> > Regards, >> > Patrick >> > >> > >> > <snip> >> >> Raf, >> >> Please don't top post, it makes it difficult to follow the thread. >> >> Next, do you happen to have a 2nd hard drive in the machine you are >> trying to boot (perhaps that has the Windows boot loader on >> it?)? How big is the drive you are trying to dd? Try any one of these >> to get to a non-bootable drive: >> >> To wipe just the MBR: >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo bs=512 count=1 >> >> To wipe all of track zero: >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo bs=512 count=63 >> >> "Zero out" the entire drive: >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo >> >> You'll need to replace foo with the appropriate device (hda, sda, etc). >> >> Kevin >> >> >> >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >> > > > Sorry Kevin, > > top post is a standard behavior of gmail :( so sorry for that. > on that computer i have 6 HDD...all others are windows formatted HDD but > none has a boot... > > but in former windows 7 my actual SDB was as first HDD in disk manager, so > with ID=0.. now it has ID=1 (so as 2nd HDD), but still not bootable. > in fact none should have a boot manager as my REAL former C:\ drive has > crashed and therefore i replace it with the one i have now as SDA :) > > I hope it is clearer :-/ > I just forgot to tell you that HDD i'm trying to dd is a 250GB HDD, so a small one -- Alain ----------------------------------------------------------- Windows 7 x64 / Fedora 17 x64 MySQL 5.5.28 Apache 2.4.3 / OpenSSL 1.0.1c Tomcat 7.17 PHP 5.4.8
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