cleaning off unix/linux????

[Gary Kline]

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:24:31AM +1000, Rowdy wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> >	Gang,
> >
> >	A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K
> >	on the drive) may be entirely good.  I am trying to avoid having
> >	to buy a DOS/Win platform.  I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu
> >	on this one machine.  For various reasons I need one DOS machine.
> >	(Already have 7 or 8 *Nix servers.)   The Windows 2000 
> >	"Professional" CD find some other non-Windows partition and 
> >	press "D" and "L" as I will, the installation CD keeps
> >	complaining.  Eventually I have to hit F3 to quit.  So, nutshell,
> >	is there any way I can completely remove any trace of *Nix?
> >	-----I remember having a DOS floppy and typing an undocumented
> >	MBR \ command that wiped the drive clean of this boot record,
> >	but this was [mumble] years ago.
> >
> >	thanks for any tips, y'all,
> >
> >	gary
> >
> >
> 
> fdisk /mbr
> 
> Rowdy


	Well, I thought this would work, no-sweat.  But I tried it 
	(on the target server [ Ubuntu ]) as root, and got

	"/mbr not found"

	so I'm guessing  you mean the DOS fdisk; the thing with the
	undocumented feature.  But I have not had/used DOS/Win-3.11
	since 1993.  

	thanks for the idea.  

	gary



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