Linux Parted question (fwd)

[Glenn Ervin]

Hi Joseph,
There are two other partitions which I would prefer to not lose the data 
from.  I have not yet ran Ubuntu on this system, but when I do, I am sure 
that it is SDA2 & SDA3 that I don't wish to damage.  SDA1 may be erased, as 
it is likely the infected partition, but one of the other partitions is 
hidden, and it may be SDA3.  But I don't know how this will effect the 
partitions other than SDA1.
Thanks.
Glenn
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From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm at pcdesk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: Linux Parted question (fwd)


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Karen,
What I would do is the following. First, I would 0 the mbr of the drive
in question. Like this.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<disk name> bs=512 count=1

Then use the mklabel command in the parted program to initialize the
mbr. This will cause all data on a drive to be lost, so make sure to do
backups if preserving the data is necessary. If you copy the partition
table using print and recreate it exactly you might be able to keep the
data from being lost, but it's an advanced thing and I won't go into
detail on exactly how to do it in this post. If you want that
information, let me know.
- -- 
Yes means no and no means yes. Delete all files [Y]?
Joseph C. Lininger, <jbahm at pcdesk.net>
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