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Linux to the rescue of Windows? How droll! ... Ben Myers
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:00:05 +0000 (UTC), efflandt@xnet.com (David Efflandt)
wrote:
>On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 01:36:14 -0400, surhpcpu <sur1518@aol.com> wrote:
>> i have a hp pavilion 780n just recently got but i cant get windows xp 2
>> load i was wonderin if any one knows if there is recovery cd's n where can
>> i get them it keeps sayin someting wit ntrld missing everytime it boots up
>
>If you did not burn your recovery tools CD and recovery CD's or DVD yet
>(which you should have done BEFORE tampering with anything or getting
>infected), maybe you can get into recovery from the first BIOS screen
>during boot. But it might go past that screen before your monitor lights
>up. So try turning your monitor on, then immediately boot. I think it is
>F10 for recovery (which probably boots the separate FAT32 recovery
>partition).
>
>PS: When I installed 64-bit XP Pro on my a530n it mangled my partition
>table (changed heads/cylinders), so it could not boot itself or XP Home.
>Fortunately I was able to fix the partition table using Linux fdisk from a
>rescue CD with no data loss. But I had to do some guessing.
>
>--
>David Efflandt - All spam ignored http://www.de-srv.com/
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