On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:38:50AM +0100, lorenzo.sandini@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > Moving my FC4 install to a bigger machine, and recycling the old computer to > be a windows xp desktop computer. > > Booted from the WinXP CD, formatted the whole drive, and hoped the MBR would > be overwritten and clean, but it is not. > > On reboot, I am offerend to choose between Win XP and "former OS", which > obviously needs nowhere. > > fdisk /mbr doesn't do a thing. How can I get rid of the reference to the > former OS in the boot menu ? I know I can edit the boot.ini, but is there any > trace of FC4 on the HDD that needs to be cleared ? > > Lorenzo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1 count=446 will clear the MBR. Of course /dev/hda depends on the place of the MBR. -- ======================================================================= Hindsight is an exact science. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
