Re: Missing Operating System

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Your brief post left plenty out, yeah I know you said left out the boring
details, so nuff said.

"Alan" wrote:

How the partition arrived I don't know, the gremlin that deleted it was
someone I know who claimed he knew what he was doing.
Why do you bother replying in such a sarcastic and ridiculous way? It
doesn't help me or you.
Your deep and profound advice not to mess with things you don't understand
puts you on a par with Solomon. I didn't realise until you informed me that
one shouldn't go through ones operating system deleting files at random I'm
grateful and humbled to have been graced to be in the presence of such
wisdom, I am not worthy.
Regards,
Alan.
"sgopus" <sgopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So, some gremlin, came in the night and installed a new partition, and
then
wiped it for you, how lucky.
Then he came back and not only erased your recovery partition, but the
operating system as well, man how unlucky!

Please don't bore us with the suddenous of it all, just get someone who
knows what the heck they are doing, before you lift a finger towards your
pc
again, and have them look at it.

Before you delete anything, you need to understand what it is and how it
relates to your pc and operating system.

"Alan" wrote:

Hi,
HP machine with XP Pro and SP2 installed.
All of a sudden I got a new hard disc installed for no apparent reason.
It
was drive D and was called HP Recovery, the machine was working fine
however
with this new addition.
I wont bore you with the long and involved details, but an attempt was
made
to delete this drive using as far as I know 'Disc Management'
This resulted in initially a black screen announcing a disc partition
fault
and after a while a message 'Missing Operating System', insert system
disc
and press any key.
I don't know much about these things although I did once use a floppy
boot
disc to recover Windows 98.
What is this system disc and how can I get one for Windows XP Pro?, as
far
as I know nothing other than the HP Recovery disc has been deleted. Can
it
be recovered or should I just give it up?
Regards,
Alan.




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