[PLUG] linux issues, identical hardware, one works with linux,the other just with windows. Solar flares?

[Galen Seitz]

Karol Kulaga <root at loraksus.org> wrote:

> -To totally reset the partition information, write zero's to the drive, 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512
> 
> Ok, cool, did. Took bloody long (like 3 hours for a 60gb drive), putting a
> task in the background in a console is just so damn cool though ;)

The person that posted that forgot to add the count argument.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

Without the count argument, the dd command will write to the entire
disk, thus the 3 hours to complete.  With a count of one, dd will just
wipe the initial boot code and partition table, which should be
sufficient.

galen