On 06/25/2015 03:55 PM, jd1008 wrote:
OK, but since this drive is my only backup drive, I feel
I cannot run dd to clobber those 466 bytes :(
Too risky, even if I feel nothing can go wrong, but ...
murphy's law ....
Re: sda1: here is the output:
dd if=/dev/sda bs=2 count=1 skip=255 2>/dev/null | od -x
0000000 aa55
Sure, caution is warranted. Setting your BIOS to boot HDD first, and
using F12 when you need USB boot is a perfectly reasonable solution.
My point is merely that there's nothing wrong with your BIOS.