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From: Gernot Fink on 17 Jul 2010 03:13
In article <a9d12d2b-eccd-427e-be92-ed11a934687a(a)z8g2000yqz.googlegroups.com>,
jny0 <jny0(a)hotmail.com> writes:
>
> Used DD to zero it (this I believe removed the MBR).
> - dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb
> - dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb

thats not needful bacause the next command overwrite this again.
>
> Then used DD to copy from sdc (the whole device) to sdb (the other
> whole device).
> - dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sdb (sdc is my source disk, sdb if the one I
> just blanked)
>
> I like detailed instructions like this, so hopefully others will too.
i wilful drop things like "of=/dev/sdb" because this can be somones prime
datastorage. :-)

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MFG Gernot
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