Accessing Recovery Partition on Compaq Presario 5000

[muthabored]

Hello to all...

I recently replaced the MOBO in one of my PCs (Presario 5000) because a power surge damaged my power supply, which in turn, fried my systemboard. Now that I've got the systemboard in and working, I boot the PC and receive, NO OPERATING SYSTEM. I boot with a Win 98 CD and checked C: & there is data there and my BIOS sees my HDD as well. I tried fdisk /mbr, thinking that maybe the boot sector was damaged...nothing. I tried scandisk but Í receive a message of some sort indicating that a sector is damaged. I know that there is a Restore partition on my drive but I don't know how to get to it/how to get it to run. Any idea(s)?

My friends, thank you again!

 

[wolluf]

muthabored - can you clarify what's what. A new drive would produce exactly what you got - NO OPERATING SYSTEM. You need to boot from 98 boot floppy (if you're really installing 98 - I abandoned it 4 years ago - but never mind that). Then you can use fdisk to create a new partition. The win98 install CD needs to have a partition created before it will 'work' (install 98). It will offer to format such a partition - but it won't create one - so boot floppy first.

 

[muthabored]

Actually, the only thing that is new is the motherboard. the hard drive had an OS and data on it but now that the motherboard has been replaced, this seems to be the only "original" piece of hardware that I'm having trouble with. I've a series of drive utilities but nothing is working. IF in fact the HDD is damaged in some way, I'm going to cut my loses and start it from scratch.

 

[comtec17]

Have you tried booting with the Recovery CD that came with the system?

 

[edfair]

There are issues between hard drive controllers that end up like this. I've been successful with deleting all partitions , then recreating and reinstalling.
Occasionally I end up with low level/zero fill to get around the odd one that don't like the repartitioning.

Ed Fair
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