Re: recovering win7

[squareyes]

On 13/01/13 10:40, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2013, at 3:30 PM, squareyes <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On 12/01/13 19:17, squareyes wrote:
> > <snip>
> > Thanks everyone,
> > have checked out sites mentioned, but unfortunately I don't have
> > a win7 cd, only the "backup" discs, would be no problem if I did.:-)
> > I would have thought that by recovering with them would format the drive anyway,
> > but that's microsoft anyway. Will try and borrow a winxp cd and try try recover 
> > mbr from it.
> You can boot almost any linux live cd that as syslinux on it, and use dd to 
> write its mbr bootloader to your disk with:
>
> dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb
>
> That's a 440 byte file that will exactly replace grub's jump code, with the 
> conventional code that looks at the partition table to know where to jump to. 
> The first sector of the partition with active flag (boot flag) set, is where 
> this code will go. So as long as you have the proper active flag set for the 
> Windows boot partition, this will work. From there it loads the Windows 
> bootloaders.
>
> Chris Murphy
Thanks for that, will give that a try.
Have purchased a copy of "Easy RE for win7" , but that doesn't work,
it does go past the  "error: no such partition" but remains a black screen,
have used gparted from live ubuntu 12.04 and made sure the boot flag
was ticked, formatted and tried both fat32 and ntfc but getting 
frustrated, have 2 machines (this one ) and the laptop,
only one monitor, so am frequently shutting down and re-booting on both 
machines, swapping monitor over.
so will have to write instructions down long hand, and my handwriting 
isn't exactly a work of art.

Thanks again
Take care
Winton


Thanks again fingers are crossed