Zekester2097
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I have this old HP Pavilion a250n, with a 2.60GHz CPU, a 120GB HDD, 2 disk drives, and 512MB of RAM. (pre-built). I try to boot it up, and here is what I get.
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"HP Invent" <F1=Setup> <F10=System Recovery>
(I hit no keys)
(Sometimes at this point, I see an American Megatrends thingy)
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart
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How do I fix this???
I think the NTFS partition is corrupt, because if I boot up a WinXP disk, it says
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Partition 1 [Fat32] [Recovery] {around 4,500MB is in this partition}
Partition 2 [Unknown] {around 100,000MB is in this partiton}
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KEY=
the [ ] is the information the disk found about the partitions, the { } is my comment on those partitions...
PS, this PC had Windows XP, so I bet it was in NTFS.
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"HP Invent" <F1=Setup> <F10=System Recovery>
(I hit no keys)
(Sometimes at this point, I see an American Megatrends thingy)
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart
_
---------------
How do I fix this???
I think the NTFS partition is corrupt, because if I boot up a WinXP disk, it says
-----
Partition 1 [Fat32] [Recovery] {around 4,500MB is in this partition}
Partition 2 [Unknown] {around 100,000MB is in this partiton}
-----
KEY=
the [ ] is the information the disk found about the partitions, the { } is my comment on those partitions...
PS, this PC had Windows XP, so I bet it was in NTFS.
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