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		eyegor 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: End of 10: Upgrade your old Windows 10 computer to... Is this advice insane or am I missing something > to fix your busted drive, just nuke the boot sector and send it > bash > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xxx bs=512 count=1 conv=notrunc

p1mrx 8 months ago [–]

I often do that (with a larger prefix, like 1MB) to reset flash drives with weird partitioning.

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