Need to erase MBR HELP!

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TheDarkTao

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Hi guys....

Well I got another thread going but it diverged....


Here is the situation. Broken raid 1 array, and the old disk still sees the windows data so it wont let me rebuild to the healthy disk. So people are telling me it is the MBR and I should use a total drive nuke...

Well it is already formatted... So I ONLY need to erase the MBR, being as it is a 2tb drive... I would not like to wait the entire day it takes to format as I already did that, and only need to delete the MBR....

So is there a way to erase a MBR would be brownie points if possible to do it in windows vista 64...

-Thanks guys!
 
I think that link is is for broken MBR not erasing the MBR...

Is there a way to run seagate drivetools on a WD HDD????
 
Fdisk /mbr

edit: this may only work in win98. Sounds like that particular tool has been moved to the recovery console for later Windows versions. But this should have you on the right track. I think Maven's post is the correct procedure for WinXP and later.
 
Linux boot disk....

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda (or whichever the drive is) count=1 bs=512
 
So just to be clear.... The fixMBR for windows recovery will ERASE the MBR if no OS is on the frive, not just re-write it.

Does that linux command erase the MBR? I think I may not have been clear, but I need the HD to be reset to "factory"
 
I am about to DL a linux boot disk.

Do you all happen to know a link where I could DL one... I have no idea which to DL and there appears to be many many options.

Also, does anyone know if the fixmbr command, would CLEAR an MBR so I could fix the raid array?
 
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