Re: recovering win7

[Felix Miata]

On 2013-01-12 20:51 (GMT-0700) Chris Murphy composed:

> squareyes wrote:

> > address@hidden:~# dd if=/usr//share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb
> > dd: opening `/usr//share/syslinux/mbr.bin': No such file or directory

If ...usr//share... is the way it was typed it couldn't be expected to work.

> > address@hidden:~$ whereis syslinux
> > syslinux: /usr/bin/syslinux /usr/lib/syslinux /usr/bin/X11/syslinux 
> > /usr/share/man/man1/syslinux.1.gz

> find / -name mbr.bin 2>/dev/null

On openSUSE it's /usr/lib/boot/MBR 440 bytes, and 
/usr/lib/boot/master-boot-code 512 bytes, the former replacement code only, 
the latter to initialize a HD to no partitions plus MBR code.
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