imho, resetting the MBR should already be enough.
and actually, windows should be able to write to the disk as it pleases.
reminds me of the OS2 boot floppy hard drive erase trick we used to do.
don't remember why, but it had to do something about NT not being able to destroy it's own NTFS partitions during install or something.
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