Invalid partiton table

[twotalltony]

hi guy

i have done a silly thing here and need help. my toshiba sattelite a205 s5861 was overloaded with alot of rubbish that didnt need to be on there and was slowing down the laptop. so i found my recovery disk and inserted it turned off my laptop and turned back on holding the c key until the satellite logo came on and released the c key and the i got the option of toshiba recovery wizard or system recovery i cant remember which one i want into but basicaly i have deleted everything from my laptop including my drives. upon the 29hrs of waiting for it to complete the deletion i turned it back on only to get a black screen with "invalid partition table" displayed and cant get any where with it i only have the recovery disk 1+2 but i have tried both of them.



any help would greatfull.



cheers tony.

 

[ksiemb]

hi guy

i have done a silly thing here and need help. my toshiba sattelite a205 s5861 was overloaded with alot of rubbish that didnt need to be on there and was slowing down the laptop. so i found my recovery disk and inserted it turned off my laptop and turned back on holding the c key until the satellite logo came on and released the c key and the i got the option of toshiba recovery wizard or system recovery i cant remember which one i want into but basicaly i have deleted everything from my laptop including my drives. upon the 29hrs of waiting for it to complete the deletion i turned it back on only to get a black screen with "invalid partition table" displayed and cant get any where with it i only have the recovery disk 1+2 but i have tried both of them.



any help would greatfull.



cheers tony.

If neither of the two below links help you, and your recovery disks and restore to factory settings did not work, you will have to buy a Windows CD, and if you have to do that, go with Win7., after you run the Upgrade advisor to see compatibility is

Link to fix Vista MBR (Master Boot Record)
http://members.rushmore.com/~jsky/id39.html


Link for Vista Recovery Options.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/What-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-Windows-Vista