Help. I think my boot sector craped out

[Stephen]

if you have a 1gb thumbdrive and any working windows or linux machine
you can use unetbootin to create a live usb drive from iso. that you
cna then boot to. no cds needed.

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a problem, I can't download ubuntu with my live cd. I live in
> cottonwood. Does anyone live around here who can copy it for me and
> I'll drive over to you to get it? Doesn't one of you live on Mingus
> Mountain?
>
> On 11/13/11, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk has been useful for me in the past.
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is this the right command
>>>
>>> root at 1[hda1]# mount /dev/hda1 hda1
>>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
>>>       missing codepage or other error
>>>       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>>       dmesg | tail  or so
>>>
>>> root at 1[hda1]# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
>>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
>>>       missing codepage or other error
>>>       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>>       dmesg | tail  or so