[CentOS] How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

Andrey Mundirov ya at penek.org
Thu Jul 21 11:51:05 UTC 2011


21.07.2011 15:31, Brian McKerr пишет:
> I usually boot from the installer CD and go to a virtual terminal 
> (Alt-F1). In the shell;
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk-i-want-to-destroy bs=512 count=1
>
> I'd guess that the partition table has some microsoft funkiness in it 
> that needs to be wiped.
>
> Take, care with this, it can and does eat data.......
>
>
> Cheers.
>
If this does not work, try to erase the LAST cylinder of each disk. 
Metadata may be stored there.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk-i-want-to-destroy bs=x count=y skip=z

where x,y,z depend on your disk geometry




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