sounds like a bad hd to me too, I copied the recovery partition out but that data is light, i386 folder seems to be on C: very strange
HP is really not that expensive on recovery cd's figured out this is not the original HD and somehow is why f 10 does not work. ( guess ) She left it connected to the internet last night with no av or firewall, I am now back at square one. :'( Good news is I am building her a new system, one with a second drive for backup. EIther raid ( no like ) or StandbyDisk ( like) fp thanks At 02:04 AM 7/2/2008, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with: >At 11:19 AM 01/07/2008, FORC5 wrote: >>Have a customer on her second system will not boot error. Recovery will not >>run from f10, have to make the recovery partition active and boots and >>restores are possible, >> >>I have no idea why she has crashed twice, drive checks OK ( wd800jb) but I >>figure replacing the drive is a good first step. She is a real estate sales >>person and is frantic. She has these ppl *your computer works* do work on it >>and I suspect they muffed it up somehow, they had windows defrag in scheduled >>tasks and I have seen defrag mess up a system if trying to work while it is >>fragging. > >Sounds like a bad HD to me. > >>There is no option in windows to create restore disks, is it possible to just >>burn the data from the restore partition and make it bootable ? Also is it >>possible to slipstream in updates ? restores to pre sp1 and is a real PITA. >>got it restored yesterday to sp1, going back this AM to do sp3 and try and >>get her laptop (vista) to network the printer again which has been a real >>pain. > >You probably can burn the partition to DVD, but it would be easier to contact >HP and get the recovery CDs for the system. > >T -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Blond Mating Call: Oh, I'm so drunk [giggle].
