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 Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca