Re: recovering win7

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:17:35 +1030
squareyes <address@hidden> пишет:

> Hi, I have a laptop that I had win7 (came with it) and Ubuntu.
> The monitor has been damaged but still works with an external monitor.
> 
> I have deleted partitions formatted them after deleting partitions and 
> created a
> single new partition, and used the recovery disks (5 dvd's), I elected 
> to re-install everything,
> thought that format the drive, but after re-starting I get a screen with
> 
> error:no such partition.
> grub rescue>
> 
> The person who I am giving it too has to use Win7, I would prefer that 
> she uses Linux but she won't.
> Is there any command I can enter on
> error:no such partition.
> grub rescue>
> to restore the mbr
> 

I do not think GRUB (legacy or 2) supports it. I think you best bet is
to boot in Windows 7 rescue mode and use restore MBR from there.