Restoring the MBR

[Richard Reynolds]

>> I swear, I waste more time on windoze for my son's flight simulators
>> than all my Linux boxes together.

yea sure blame your son's flight simulators :D

> fdisk /mbr

additionally if you are completely restarting.  by nuking the mbr/partition
tables it nt/200x/9x/xp/me will figure it out. something like

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count =1

but any data on all partitions will be lost.