Disillusion
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I rebooted my laptop today and when it got past the POST, the screen turned black and there was a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner of the screen. It wouldn't boot at all.
I tried getting into the recovery console by booting off of the installation CD. I did a FIXBOOT and a FIXMBR and still nothing. So, I figured I would repair the OS, but now the installation CD can't even find a Windows installation.
I ran Knoppix and Ubuntu live CDs to see if they could mount the drive, neither one could because of some error. I ran GParted to see if there was something wrong with the partition and sure enough it gave me some kind of error as well. As if the filesystem is corrupt or something.
Now, I can't get the recovery console open because it doesn't even know there's a Windows installation there. What do I do? I've never had this problem before.
I tried getting into the recovery console by booting off of the installation CD. I did a FIXBOOT and a FIXMBR and still nothing. So, I figured I would repair the OS, but now the installation CD can't even find a Windows installation.
I ran Knoppix and Ubuntu live CDs to see if they could mount the drive, neither one could because of some error. I ran GParted to see if there was something wrong with the partition and sure enough it gave me some kind of error as well. As if the filesystem is corrupt or something.
Now, I can't get the recovery console open because it doesn't even know there's a Windows installation there. What do I do? I've never had this problem before.