Re: Clearing hard disk's MBS

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 16:01 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Actually the boot record is only the first 446 bytes of sector 0.
> > The rest of the sector is the partition table.
> 
> Why do people continually post this incorrect information. The
> PT is *part* of the MBR, which is 512 bytes. The MBR has three
> parts:
> 	code
> 	partition table
> 	marker
> 
> Mike
How can I say this? You are right but your informatiion is irrelevant.
Most people wand to change the boot blocks and keep the Partition table.
Replacing all 512 bytes will  destroy the partition table and make the
machine useless.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>