If you ever get an MBR so screwed up that nothing will work- reformatting and 
overwriting don't work- you can always boot up a Live-CD like Mepis or 
Knoppix. Then open a terminal and run badblocks with the -w option on the 
harddrive . You will lose all the data on the drive. 
Probably most Linux installation disks have the badblocks program. Slackware 
does.

See man badblocks

This happened to me once with a chronic "NT loader missing" error I got when I 
tried to install Linux on a drive that had had Win2000 on it. 

Siri Amrit

On Saturday 20 November 2004 10:10 am, mike hoy kindly wrote:
> hi,
>
> i installed gentoo and chose grub.
>
> when i rebooted lilo was still there.
>
> for an experiment i deleted an entire hdd and lilo was
> still there. i guess it's hard to delete the mbr..
>
> anyway how does one completely wipeout  a hdd with
> linux?
>
> i don't want my old lilo on my hdd.
>
> question: do i have to install lilo again instead of
> grub so that the old lilo will be gone?
>
> confused,,
>
> mike h
>
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