May 15, 1999 02:15 PM
Blasting MBRs
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Empty your hard disk to install a new OS
Installing and removing versions of Windows NT, Windows 9x, and Linux on a computer often leads to mysterious computer behavior. Recently, I thought that I had completely removed Linux from a computer, but the computer wouldn't boot without a Linux-ish error message. I zapped every partition and still Linux raised its headdespite a seemingly empty hard disk. PC veterans attribute mysteries of this type to an area of the disk called the Master Boot Record (MBR). Unless you know a few tricks, NT, other versions of Windows, and DOS lack simple tools for working with the MBR.
The MB...
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