Solved Re: recovering win7

[squareyes]

On 12/01/13 19:17, squareyes wrote:
> 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>
Problem solved,
many thanks for all the help.
I re-installed Ubuntu 12.04, with no problems.
Used gparted live cd to flag the partition to "Boot"
Re ran the recovery disks and all went in ok.

Thanks will be more careful in future:-)
Take care
Winton