Re: how to delete HD partitions screwed up by DOS' fdisk

[Stephen Lee <sl@example.com>]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 14:18:11 +0900
Hector Akamine <akamine@example.com> wrote:
> I'm very sorry, linux fdisk reported errors because I  made a stupid mistake:
> I wrote "fdisk /dev/hda1" instead of "/dev/hda". (But win2000 still
> freezes)

If you want to nuke the partition table, this will do it under Linux:
(Warning: this will make all the partitions on your disk unavailable)

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

Stephen