[Wolves] Master Boot Record

[Rob Annable]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:36:01 +0000, Peter Cannon
<peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 November 2004 15:15, Rob Annable wrote:
> 
> > Seriously Peter, I believe you :) I shall try it again this evening. I
> > made a half hearted attempt at this last night but will try it again
> > before I do anything drastic. Like take a sledgehammer to my machine
> > (which is seriously tempting since I've just blown the dust off my old
> > Mac SE and I'm thinking about buying this:
> > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5140426369
> > ).
> 
> Really sorry if that seemed forceful I get a bit stressed when I see stuff
> like zero the drive etc.
> 
> IMHO its geek speak and people who are 100% novices will get frightened and
> think "Oh god I'd better get my local shop to do it for me".
> 
> If you have a dual boot system you can even do it from Windows bring up a dos
> window type fdisk /mbr and hey presto you've just blown Grub or Lilo away the
> thing will now boot straight into Windows the only way to access the Linux
> partition is with a rescue or RIP disk I also own the Ultimate boot CD not
> had a chance to use it yet but supposedly it has every boot tool for every OS
> on it.
> 
> Anyway Sorry if I was Mr Angry from Purley :-)
> 

Not at all Peter. Thanks for the help. I shall let you know how I get on.

Rob

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