Re: recovering win7

[squareyes]

On 13/01/13 16:12, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> В Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:47:51 -0500
> Felix Miata <address@hidden> пишет:
>
> > 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.
> Why? Multiple slashes are treated as single slash and have always been.
>
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Hi ,
It's in  /usr/lib

I ran ,  dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb
and ran the recovery dvd's again, no longer has a grub error, now
has a drive error. I ticked the drive as bootable with gparted previously.
dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb

I have been at this for nearly 2 full days now, shutting down, shifting 
monitor,
booting live ubuntu dvds, re running the recovery dvd's which take 
around an hour to go through,
shutting down and returning monitor to this machine etc etc and have now 
re-installed ubuntu 12.04 works fine, which I am
going to present to her and try to help her to use ubuntu.
Her other alternative is to find some one with considerably more 
patience than I have, will give her the recovery dvd's:-)

Many thanks for everyone's help, very much appreciated.
Take care
Winton