On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote: > - based on the info in http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwmbr.htm I tried > wiping the first 138 bytes of /dev/sda IIRC, you need to whack the first 446 bytes. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1 Steve Brown sbrown7 at umbc.edu