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- From: morley@camins.camosun.bc.ca
- Subject: Re: Deleting Masterboot without reinstalling?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.091429.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca>
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- References: <1992Sep8.145904.14036@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> <umunk.715979734@naxos> <1992Sep8.210132.25253@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:14:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.210132.25253@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>, thigpen@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Keith Thigpen) writes:
- > umunk@naxos.sni.de (Udo Munk) writes:
- >
- >>thigpen@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Keith Thigpen) writes:
- >
- >>>I'm looking at removing Coh from my PC to reinstall on a deicated machine.
- >>>Is there an easy way to delete Masterboot from my hard drive without
- >>>going thru the reinstall procedure?
- >
- >>Install MS-DOS 5.0, it overwrites MWCs masterboot with it's own.
- >>--
- >>Udo Munk voice: +49 2131 275348
- >>Oberstr. 21 mail : udo@umunk.GUN.de
- >>4040 Neuss 1 ...!{mcshh,smurf,unido}!easix!umunk!udo
- >>Germany CompuServe: 100021,2515
- >
- > Thanks you all for the responses and email!
- > Keith
- >
- > --
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > | Keith Thigpen thigpen@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (205)461-4936 |
- > | New Technology, Inc. Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL |
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Uh, I don't know if anybody suggested this one, but just in case...
- There is an "undocumented" feature of the DOS fdisk command. If you enter
- FDISK /MBR (or is it just /M?) it will write a new master boot record to
- the disk, effectively canning whatever was there before. No need to
- re-install DOS.
-
- MARK
- morley@camins.camosun.bc.ca
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