Re: Help with recovery partiton


"Twayne" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jb wrote:
Can anyone with a compaq machine do me a kindness and post the
contents of the boot.ini file please.

No1 son decided to 'repair' my Compaq Pressario by installing a retail
version of XP Pro. It should have XP Home on it so now it is illegal.
By doing he has overwritten the boot.ini file so that using F10 no
longer gives access to the recovery option, partition 'D'

If I can set the boot back to standard I can then reinstall it to
factory default.

Many thanks

Jb

Ouch. Something to check on: Did he delete all partitions and recreate
them when he did that, or did he just do an install? Just for GPs, check
if you can to be certain the D drive is actually there and contains data.
If it's hidden or anything, you might need to use Disk Management to see
if it's there. Also, there is sometimes also another, non-lettered hidden
partition that goes along with drive D if that's the right letter. On a
Dell MCE I was just fiddling with, it all lived on drive X and one hidden
partition right next to that. Easily visible in Disk Management.
Control panel; administrative tasks; computer management; disk management.

Hope you find someone with a like machine. Any chance you could ask their
tech support?

HTH

Twayne

Thanks for replies guys. The recovery partition is still there and
untouched, I went to Compaq 'live' support who said I have to buy a set of
disks but I'd like to exhaust the possibilities of recovering from the
partition before I do that, (10 days and £25).
like a lot of people i now realise i should have created a CD but i didn't.
I thought of REMing the C drive out in the boot cfg file but that would I'm
sure that would leave me dead in the water. I edited it to what I thought it
should be and the F10 option has reappeard but says the configuration is
wrong, not corrupt, just wrong. From this i assumed that in the 'proper'
windows installation there is something that points to the correct
parameters but damned if i can find out what they are.

thanks

Jb



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