I booted my Dell Inspiron 1525 on a Vista Recovery DVD (not installation disk), ran the Command Prompt, and did like following:
I just cant boot my xp unles using the Hiren's boot cd option 'boot xp'. I have tried the 10 'Try thios 1st. Try this 2nd' autofixes with no luck. When I juist boot from the main HD,There's not even a message complaining about no NTLDR or something, it just says there's no bootable OS.
Now I can't even start up up my computer ('no boot sector in internal hard drive'). When I boot on my Recovery DVD, under System Recovery Options where I'm supposed to pick my Operating System, nothing is there anymore.
How can I get my working OS back?
All this is because I was fiddling with it trying to restore to Dell Factory Image with Repair Your Computer option missing in F8 Advanced Boot Options.
Kamil Maciorowski1 Answer
Clean
parameter of diskpart
command removes any and all partition or volume formatting from the disk with focus.
You need to find a partition recovery software to recover your partitions.
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First of all I strongly recommend to backup your whole disk using Redo Backup or any other reliable backup software you choose.
Then I recommend you use Testdisk to recover your partition table. It is open source software and easy to use.
There are many bootable Live CD compilations which contain Testdisk. Here is a list of them. You may use Ubuntu Rescue Remix or Hiren's Boot CD or GParted Live CD, for example. I have used them all with satisfaction.
Just download ISO file of any of such compilations and burn it to a CD to make it bootable.
Please refer to this official page if you need step by step guide for partition recovery process.
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Good luck!
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