[Tfug] Repartition Drive with Linux to add Winders

[Jeffry Johnston]

On a sidenote, dd is excellent for testing floppies (try reading it,
or better, writing then reading).  I'm finding that about half of my
3.5" floppies have bad parts on them (of course once I discover that,
it goes straight to the trash).  These disks average about 15 years
old.  Fujifilm and Sony seem to be okay, but 3M are not... and of
course the no-name ones are pretty much all gone.  The AOL disks
actually seem to be pretty good.

Jeff



On Feb 18, 2008 10:49 AM, Robert Hunter <hunter at tfug.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:55:20AM -0700, jblais wrote:
> > Hello -
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> > I had a need to run Winders on a machine we had previously set up for Linux.
>
> Joe, you could boot a live CD, and then just wipe the MBR with:
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> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourdrive bs=512 count=1
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> HTH,
>
> - --
> Rob
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