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    [–] Bassman1805 59 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    My first attempt at running Arch, I managed to fuck it up so badly that I had to write a script to write zeros to every bit of my HDD. Fun times.

    [–] [email protected] 76 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Wtf did you do lol I’m scared

    [–] Bassman1805 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    Honestly don't even remember, but it was in my peak "know enough to be dangerous" days in college. I almost certainly didn't have to go that nuclear to fix it, but that's what I did.

    Take 2 of Arch, after that wipe was completed, went pretty well. It revived an old piece of shit laptop for another few years before its motherboard gave out.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

    I’ll wager guess it was something to do with confusing GPT and MBR partitioning. There was a time where some BIOSs and loaders only understood or preferred one over the other, leading to weird incongruences depending on what you’re using to look at the disk. You have to actually overwrite the partition tables to get a clean start.