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>From dos i think.

btw what does the :w do? (sorry, i know it's not a dos mailing 
list, just had to ask :) )

Don Yuniskis wrote:
> 
> > How do I restore my original MBR once I have removed the FreeBSD software?
> > I tried to reformat buy no go.
> 
> fdisk /mbr:w