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|    Henrik Carlqvist to Joseph Rosevear    |
|    Re: When your boot sector has been wiped    |
|    22 Dec 23 06:24:32    |
      From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com              On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:26:54 +0000, Joseph Rosevear wrote:       > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1              Be careful with that one, at least with good old MBR partition style       those first 512 bytes will not only contain the MBR code to boot but also       the partition table. However, with a GPT partition table the first 512       bytes will only contain boot code.              regards Henrik              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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