press h to retry hard drive; invalid boot sector

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Bonnie

My Windows xp Pavilion laptop came installed with the oem
version, leaving me with nothing but the recovery cd-rom.
My system crashed after several viruses and I have a 20gig
hd with loads of files that I'll find hard to live without.
Is there any help for me? I can go into Bios, but I can't
access any drive a:\ nor C:\ except thru the boot-up
process. If I use the recovery it wants to reformat the
drive. Please, can someone help me with this situation?
Thanks ever so much----Bonnie
 
Hello Bonnie

Here is a kit that you can order and have a friend of your
removed the drive and connect to the kit below, that way you
will be able to get your data back. Of course their is more
work involed here but you will get your data back. I currently
own one of those kits and works great for users with laptops

http://store.yahoo.com/priorityelectronics/pmusb20exhad.html


Alvin
 
That's probably more expensive than a one-time repair requires. A simple
adapter to allow the laptop drive to connect to a standard IDE cable would
do just fine.
 
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Hello Bonnie

Here is a kit that you can order and have a friend of your
removed the drive and connect to the kit below, that way you
will be able to get your data back. Of course their is more
work involed here but you will get your data back. I currently
own one of those kits and works great for users with laptops
ml


Alvin




Thank you, Alvin, but how does this great granny make use
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of this caddy? I have a hp pavilion desktop running
win98se, but I don't know how to go about using it to make
a boot disk or whatever for my xp. I did get a c prompt at
one time, but then it disappeared when I turned off the
laptop. Is the info there on how to use this caddy, and as
I stated, my laptop came with xp home ed installed, so I
didn't get an xp cd-rom, only the recovery disks. I made a
set of xp boot disks from the ms site, but then in one
section it said to remove all files from#1 disk and
replace with certain files from the xp disk--if I had that
I would not need the boot disks--would I?? I do appreciate
the time you took out for me---God Bless you and yours.
Bonnie
 
-----Original Message-----
That's probably more expensive than a one-time repair requires. A simple
adapter to allow the laptop drive to connect to a standard IDE cable would
do just fine.

http://store.yahoo.com/priorityelectronics/pmusb20exhad.htm
l


Hey, you guys, thanks for all the responses, and if I do
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have to buy the kit---who knows--it may come in handy
again one of these days. I would try the ide cable, but I
don't know how to go about doing this---any step by steps,
Fellas??? Again, much appreciation for your time. Bonnie
 
Actually, do you have a CD Burner on this computer or are you on a
network? If you do, you can just backup all of your data off the
computer to CD or to another computer on the network and then format and
reinstall Windows. You do not even need to be in Windows to do this.
Try Bart's PE Bootable CD which has plenty of recovery tools and you
will need to download and add Nero Burning Rom Plugin/software to the
CD. Read the website under Plugins about half way down the page:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

If you choose, you can even use your XP Install CD to add the XP Setup
to this boot CD ;)
 
Wanted to tell you guys that when I said I could access
the c and a at bootup--I wish to correct that---after the
message press H to retry or any key to try another--then
this is where I can use the cd-rom [if I had a winxp disk
which I do not] I could use it---only furnished me with
the recovery disks--3 of those. I'll try most anything
right now, as I have to have surgery on my foot Friday,
and I will be unable to sit at the desk w/ the desktop.
I read how to create an xp boot disk from an xp based
machine, but I, nr does anyone close to me, have a winxp
machine. I have instructions to copy certain files onto a
floppy from the hd--or winxp cd-rom, but neither can I do
this. Sincerely, Bonnie (e-mail address removed)

your removed the drive and connect to the kit below, that
way you
more work involed here but you will get your data back. I
currently own one of those kits and works great for users with laptops tml

oem version, leaving me with nothing but the recovery cd-
rom.
20gig hd with loads of files that I'll find hard to live
without.>>> Is there any help for me? I can go into Bios,
Click to expand...
but I can't access any drive a:\ nor C:\ except thru the
boot-up process. If I use the recovery it wants to
reformat the drive. Please, can someone help me with this
situation?use of this caddy? I have a hp pavilion desktop running
win98se, but I don't know how to go about using it to
Click to expand...
make a boot disk or whatever for my xp. I did get a c
prompt at one time, but then it disappeared when I turned
off the laptop. Is the info there on how to use this
caddy, and as I stated, my laptop came with xp home ed
installed, so I didn't get an xp cd-rom, only the recovery
disks. I made a set of xp boot disks from the ms site, but
then in one section it said to remove all files from#1
disk and replace with certain files from the xp disk--if I
had that I would not need the boot disks--would I?? I do
appreciate the time you took out for me---God Bless you
and yours. >Bonnie
 
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