Re: Help with recovery partiton

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"Jb" <j5789@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ytSdnboFmoaHZADUnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx

"Twayne" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ORPzZOukJHA.4520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.


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?

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.

What do you mean exactly by the F10 option has reappeared? What was the
exact error message when you pressed F10?

Post the contents of your boot.ini file with the changes that you made.




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