Hi everyone, I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop and currently am having a serious windows problem. A little while ago, I encountered the BSOD and proceeded to restart the computer. When I did so, I was notified that my 'system' file was either missing/corrupt and thus windows could not boot. After thinking of a way to recover my data, I decided to use BartPE, and successfully recovered everything I needed. Now, since my laptop is Dell, I remembered that they always include some sort of 'ghost' partition that allows you to run the original setup while also formating the hard drive (I believe) - i think it goes by the name of Dell Recovery Symantec something or the other... Anyway, after I did this and ran the original setup, my laptop restarted. And NOW this is where I am having the oddest problem - IT STILL WONT BOOT! Except now I get a white screen similar to the BIOS loading one, and it has the message 'File Allocation Table Bad, Drive C' and has a bunch of symbols underneath while logged into DOS. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to get my laptop running again. I have tried all the chkdsk options in the recovery console. I am primarily wondering if I load up my XP CD, delete the partitions that are already there and just reinstall XP all together if that will work? Any thoughts......
See if testdisk can fix the problem before you try anything else. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
