How to manipulate the first 512 bytes of the hard disk

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piratesmack

How to manipulate the first 512 bytes of the hard disk

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Very cool link:
http://www.tuxation.com/mbr-tricks-with-linux.html
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Husse

Re: How to manipulate the first 512 bytes of the hard disk

Post by Husse »

Interesting
But a warning is in place - playing with the MBR could end in disaster - but it could also help after a disaster
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piratesmack

Re: How to manipulate the first 512 bytes of the hard disk

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Husse wrote:Interesting
But a warning is in place - playing with the MBR could end in disaster - but it could also help after a disaster
Ha ha yeah, I've screwed up my mbr quite a few times playing with the dd utitlity.
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