Miami_Arch
Member
Hi everybody,
my computer crashed a couple of days ago, due to power failure during a storm.
It doesn't boot but by downloading the recovery CD from here (thanks) I could boot and get to DOS.
Now the plot thickens. It's an HP desktop with a Recovery partition. When I tried the F11 thing it attempted to boot and the next time I got to the command prompt the drive letters were swapped. C: is now D: and viceversa...
Anyway, there is something wrong with the drive but I managed to connect a WD external USB drive and copy all my files, so my data is secured.
I can read the drive contents just fine with a DIR or COPY command. But when I tried the Bootsect command it worked perfectly on the Recovery partition but hangs on the main partition (the one containing Vista. Can anyone tell me if it's supposed to take long or there is something wrong here.
Thanks a lot
my computer crashed a couple of days ago, due to power failure during a storm.
It doesn't boot but by downloading the recovery CD from here (thanks) I could boot and get to DOS.
Now the plot thickens. It's an HP desktop with a Recovery partition. When I tried the F11 thing it attempted to boot and the next time I got to the command prompt the drive letters were swapped. C: is now D: and viceversa...
Anyway, there is something wrong with the drive but I managed to connect a WD external USB drive and copy all my files, so my data is secured.
I can read the drive contents just fine with a DIR or COPY command. But when I tried the Bootsect command it worked perfectly on the Recovery partition but hangs on the main partition (the one containing Vista. Can anyone tell me if it's supposed to take long or there is something wrong here.
Thanks a lot