Trouble

I did a search and couldn't see my problem explained... I'm sorry if this has been covered a few times and if so, could you point me to the right post...

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Right,,, about a week ago i lost my sound card, i tried to restore to a previous date and it wiped my hardrive clean....
I have tried to recover, using the disks that i have and it just sends me to a DOS page with the message at the bottom ' invalid patition table'.. I have tried all three options for recovering and it just sends me back to the Dos page... I can get into my bios page and have put everything on defult, but it didn't work... I hope one of you may be able to help me as i am stuck....
Cheers.
RT

 

What OS?

 

XP,,,,,,,, amd 2400 processor,,,,,, the thing has also knocked out my monitor.

 

I am using another monitor and it's not been affected yet.

 

By the extent of your answers, i can only asume it's gone and died on me..

 

sorry man, I passed out early last night.
Your drives partition table got corrupted. No easy way to repair it that I'm aware of. Maybe someone else knows. The only 2 instances that I've experienced with this, I ended up reformatting.

 

It wont let me reformat...............It's shagged i think,,,,thanks anyway dude..

 

Ok, try an FDISK then.. if you need more info on FDISK, let me know.

 

yeah, FDISK or KILLDISK, however KILLDISK is a low-level format utility, I'd go with Fdisk first

 

FDISC?????? that went straight over my head.... Youll have to use laymans terms here, please.... What is it and where can i get one....?
cheers all...

 

fdisk is on your bootfloppy.

just boot up and type in fdisk
you'll get a question about whether or not you want to enable support for large disks, which you'll want, so answer Yes.
then you get a menu and from that menu you just delete the primary partition and then make a new primary partition, then reboot and format and your trouble should be over

 

http://fdisk.radified.com/

tutorial on FDISK

 

*saves link*

 

Great link, thanks Kodo

 

yes,yes, thank you KODO

 

Thanks very much for that and thanks for all your help,,,, not possible t try yet but as soon as i have i will report....fingers crossed.