i tried it and still have the windows boot manager when my HDD boot :( instead of having "system not found" (which is the typicall message when boot sector is not found in windows)

any other idea than "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1" ? i also tried with bs=512, but still not successfull :(


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Raf Roger <raf.news@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Patrick,

in fact i can delete everything on this HDD as i formatted it...backup was done before :)
i just found also something similar.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1
where /dev/sda should be replaced by my HDD value.



On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Patrick Lists <fedora-list@puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
On 01/30/2013 06:13 PM, Raf Roger wrote:
Hi,

i formatted my HDD where before i had windows 7 installed, in order to
install new fedora 18.
however after fedora installation, HDD does not boot on grub but still
on former windows boot manager.

How ca i do to REALLY remove this stupid windows 7 boot manager ?
thx


http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/using-dd-to-zero-the-mbr-query-606489/

Make sure you don't delete data you do not want to lose. You do have a backup of your important data right?

Regards,
Patrick

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