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HP Pavilion a1012x Recovery Problem - Windows XP
Shane:
And did the DIR pull up the folders on the C: drive?
Shane
backtolife:
Yes... Windows folder and the rest.
Shane:
OK, well we at least now know the problem. The MBR on the drive is simply corrupt. I had seen a virus infect the MBR and the ONLY way to remove it was by deleting the partition and recreating it. Nothing would get rid of it other than that. So that shows you how deep the MBR can be and trying to repair it may not be doing the trick.
I wonder if I had you get Ubuntu and install it on that drive, if it would do the dual boot option.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
Basically I am just looking for a way to completely rebuild the boot record.
Been a long day, I am off for the night. Will be back tomorrow :-)
Night!
Shane
backtolife:
Thanks for the help today Shane. Have a good night.
Boggin:
I found that the Kaspersky Rescue disk can initiate a chkdsk /f after it has scanned C:
This scan took about 9hrs on this machine and after I clicked on the Shutdown option on completion, went away and came back to find a chkdsk /f running which fixed my problem of a black screen, although the black screen only had a big white cursor arrow on it and not the Error alert message - but it's worth a shot.
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