Hope you can help,
My original problem was when my laptop boots up, i get a message saying no operating system present, or words to that effect.
Please see my previous thread https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic23931.html
When inserting a Win XP cd, I can get to the recovery console, if I try to repair XP I get message saying access denied!?
If I try to re install XP Iam greeted with two partitions,
E: Partition1 <Inactive <OS/2 Boot Man 2000MB <1066MB free
C: Partition2 [Unknown] 26616MB <26615MB free
Whats is the e: partition?
Why is c: Partition unknown?
I only have the option to format the C: Partition in either NTFS or FAT32 format.
I would like to avoid losing any personal docs if possible.
Also I can boot from the packard bell recovery disk, which will recover windows, but also delete my personal programs and documents.
Which should I use??
Many thanks
Dom
My original problem was when my laptop boots up, i get a message saying no operating system present, or words to that effect.
Please see my previous thread https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic23931.html
When inserting a Win XP cd, I can get to the recovery console, if I try to repair XP I get message saying access denied!?
If I try to re install XP Iam greeted with two partitions,
E: Partition1 <Inactive <OS/2 Boot Man 2000MB <1066MB free
C: Partition2 [Unknown] 26616MB <26615MB free
Whats is the e: partition?
Why is c: Partition unknown?
I only have the option to format the C: Partition in either NTFS or FAT32 format.
I would like to avoid losing any personal docs if possible.
Also I can boot from the packard bell recovery disk, which will recover windows, but also delete my personal programs and documents.
Which should I use??
Many thanks
Dom