Nice quick thinking! :) On Friday, October 8, 2010, Robert Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > I had an old friend call who had his MBR fail so he couldn't boot. > He had no MS floppy and no CD/DVD media for MS to use the > Recovery option. Here is how I fixed it for him. He is in Indiana. > > I had him come up on Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD. > I then had him install "teamviewer" which gave me remote access to his > machine even though it was a Live CD. Teamviewer installed into ram. > > I then had him use Applications -> Ubuntu Software Center and download > a program called "mbr". I read the destructions and then typed: > install-mbr /dev/sda > > and he rebooted and everything worked again. > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >
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