b_man
Broken In
Hey All,
Sorry if this is a bit long but i need your help recovering my HDD and i feel all this is imp info.
I recently got an HP laptop from the US that came pre-installed with Vista. The thing is that although i have a valid license for Vista, the CD/DVD itself was not part of the package. Instead, my vista was given to me in a recovery partition on the HDD itself.
Didn't think about it much at that time, until the inevitable happened. My cousin gave the laptop a rude shock, and windows stopped booting. I can't even get it to boot into safe mode. I know the HDD must have been damaged and would have developed some bad sectors but i think it is still functional cause i was able to use a data recovery software to boot without windows, and was able to xfer all my files to my Desktop PC.
However, i want to try and see if i can recover the HDD to at least a bootable level so that i can format the C: drive (partition) and reinstall Vista from the D: drive (recovery partition).
For this, i downloaded the Windows recovery CD from a website so that i can boot from the CD and try to perform some sort of recovery.
Although my data recovery software was able to boot from the CD, my computer refuses to boot from the recovery CD. The same CD is being recognized by my Desktop PC. Same is the case with a Vista DVD bought from the gray market (what can i say, i am desperate at this point!)
Is there some other software/tool i can try that recovers the boot functionality of my laptop somehow? Please help! Even something that helps me boot from the pen drive.
Thnx a million! Cheers!
Sorry if this is a bit long but i need your help recovering my HDD and i feel all this is imp info.
I recently got an HP laptop from the US that came pre-installed with Vista. The thing is that although i have a valid license for Vista, the CD/DVD itself was not part of the package. Instead, my vista was given to me in a recovery partition on the HDD itself.
Didn't think about it much at that time, until the inevitable happened. My cousin gave the laptop a rude shock, and windows stopped booting. I can't even get it to boot into safe mode. I know the HDD must have been damaged and would have developed some bad sectors but i think it is still functional cause i was able to use a data recovery software to boot without windows, and was able to xfer all my files to my Desktop PC.
However, i want to try and see if i can recover the HDD to at least a bootable level so that i can format the C: drive (partition) and reinstall Vista from the D: drive (recovery partition).
For this, i downloaded the Windows recovery CD from a website so that i can boot from the CD and try to perform some sort of recovery.
Although my data recovery software was able to boot from the CD, my computer refuses to boot from the recovery CD. The same CD is being recognized by my Desktop PC. Same is the case with a Vista DVD bought from the gray market (what can i say, i am desperate at this point!)
Is there some other software/tool i can try that recovers the boot functionality of my laptop somehow? Please help! Even something that helps me boot from the pen drive.
Thnx a million! Cheers!