Hello. I was doing a couple of things on my computer at the time that may have led to my computer being, well, inoperable. Ok, so first I edited the registry to allow Chkdsk to run at startup, because I wanted to make sure my disk was ok for partitioning. Also, there was an icon on the shutdown button indicating there were updates to be installed. So after rebooting, I put in a BootCD that had Partition Magic on it. I was planning on partitioning then. I started up the program and (I can't really remember it verbatim) it said that something was miss-matched, data or file systems or something, and would I like to correct it. I said yes. Then I restarted and low and behold I can't boot into Vista. It said that Windows failed to start, it may be due to a hardware change. It then gave me the option of starting the recovery console or starting windows normally. I chose the first. It scanned for Windows directories, and it couldn't find any. I then ran diskpart from the cmd to see what the deal was and I now had 1 recovery partition that shipped with the laptop, and 1 partition of 288Gb of unallocated space! I made peace with the fact that I would have to reformat, so I put in the recovery disk and selected disk 0 and the unallocated space. It gave me an error message, like windows couldn't find a drive with the correct specifications or something like that. I can't reformat, can't resize, nothing. I restart a couple more times, then I the "start windows normally" option, which just makes it flash blue and restart. It was then that when I selected recovery console and tried to install to the partition on disk0 that it said it couldn't find any harddrives. I also popped in my XP disk just to try and I got the same result. What should I do?
*Update* It's now saying my recovery disk is incompatible with this version of windows. This is the disk I got with my dell.
*Update* It's now saying my recovery disk is incompatible with this version of windows. This is the disk I got with my dell.
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