Re: Fixing Windows WAS Re: Fips problems

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From: David Stanaway
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 00:00

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>Boot from Linux Boot/Root disks and at shell type:
>
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1
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>Fixes Windows every time!


Don't you think that it would be fair to explain exactly what this does in
the off chance that they decided to try it, thinking that you were helping
them retrieve the information on their broken filesystem.

You could be a little more responsible, really.

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From: "David Stanaway" <dstanawa@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Fixing Windows WAS Re: Fips problems
Date: 1998/01/05
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