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New challenge - most annoying program
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12-02-2005, 07:12 AM
I can't quite remember why. I found it a while ago on the discovery channel mythbusters forums....
Oh wait, I screwed up...

Quote:By writing two zero bytes to a specific location of the boot sector on the hard drive the computer can be made so it will not boot, even from a floppy. This can be done from the keyboard using debug. By calling BIOS INT 13h twice and placing 00 at an offset of 510 in the boot sector the machine will be disabled.

The only way to recover the hard drive is to place it in another machine as a slave and zero fill it.
http://community.discovery.com/groupee/f...6761946708
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New challenge - most annoying program - by seph - 05-29-2003, 05:18 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by DrV - 05-30-2003, 05:26 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by seph - 06-01-2003, 06:49 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Neo - 06-03-2003, 03:51 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by seph - 06-04-2003, 10:48 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Neo - 06-05-2003, 12:05 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by oracle - 06-06-2003, 03:31 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by seph - 06-06-2003, 04:02 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Neo - 06-06-2003, 05:52 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by ak00ma - 06-06-2003, 05:53 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Neo - 06-06-2003, 05:57 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Neo - 06-06-2003, 06:29 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by ak00ma - 06-07-2003, 10:16 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Joakim - 06-08-2003, 02:07 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Neo - 06-12-2003, 03:19 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by barok - 06-19-2003, 07:21 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by potato - 06-19-2003, 07:10 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by barok - 06-20-2003, 05:31 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by oracle - 07-16-2003, 08:54 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by mot19 - 07-25-2003, 10:08 AM
A slight improvement... - by oracle - 07-25-2003, 10:47 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by oracle - 07-26-2003, 12:36 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by oracle - 07-28-2003, 10:32 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by mot19 - 08-07-2003, 10:24 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by oracle - 08-08-2003, 02:14 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by oracle - 08-10-2003, 01:23 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by barok - 08-11-2003, 09:59 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by barok - 09-01-2003, 08:31 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Neo - 09-01-2003, 12:38 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Moneo - 09-02-2003, 05:14 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by oracle - 09-03-2003, 01:37 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Piptol - 09-22-2003, 09:30 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by oracle - 09-23-2003, 03:33 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by oracle - 09-23-2003, 06:55 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by oracle - 09-23-2003, 08:41 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Piptol - 09-24-2003, 12:37 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Anonymous - 12-01-2005, 08:09 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by KiZ - 12-01-2005, 03:38 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by SSC - 12-01-2005, 11:18 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Kevin_theprogrammer - 12-02-2005, 07:12 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by KiZ - 12-02-2005, 07:34 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by KiZ - 12-02-2005, 07:52 AM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Z!re - 12-03-2005, 05:53 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Anonymous - 12-03-2005, 11:13 PM
New challenge - most annoying program - by Z!re - 12-04-2005, 01:46 AM

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