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

[Galen Seitz]

Derek Loree <drl at drloree.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:52, Galen Seitz wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I did that on purpose, that way the extra FAT at the end will be wiped
> out too, making very sure that the old partitions cannot be recovered.
> 

Sorry about that.  I had intended to say 'probably forgot'.  I didn't
mean to sound so definitive.  That's pretty painful, though, to have
to zero the entire disk.

galen