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system wont boot - possibly lost everything :(
I recent had a friend of mine upgrade my dell inspiron 6400 windows xp to 7 - they did a clean install after wiping all the rubbish from my old xp for me... the new 7 was working fine but i noticed i was getting a warning message saying that my hard drive was problematic... yesterday the pc crashed and now when i try to boot the pc says:
1.Launch startup repair (recommended) or
2.start windows normally
option 2 causes the system to crash, blue screen flashes up fast then goes black
option 1 will take me to the
i have the installation disk for windows 7 and i have even tried booting from it but the problem is that when i go into the system recovery options i get 2 options:
1. use recovery tools to fix the problem - select OS to repair
2. restore your computer using system image earlier created
the problem is that there is also a box listing the OS and it is blank - partition size is also blank as well as location
i do have an option to load drivers and when i cliick that it takes me into a file called system 32 in the boot x: drive - the name of the c drive is reading system reserved.
all items under optopn 1. either dont work or dont do anything
Can anyone help me get my old desktop back, please please please, i dont know what to do
Last edited by steven7942; 23 Jan 2010 at 20:57.