have a HP 7360 Pavillion with winXP pro MCE 2005 made the required rescue DVDs (2) all up-to-date with Microsoft including SP3. All up-to-date with virus AVG. I messed up on friday. I was going to label a disk in the drive. The disk was an MBR repair disk from Acronis (I think) and I pressed the enter key Like push here dummy. result is Hd not recognised. sort of. black screen with invalid operating system! Did have a floppy with the ntldr,ntdetect.com.boot.ini,and hal.dll which when I enter takes to the login screen and stops. I tried the CD winXP PRO from my girl friend and when I get to R/console No hd recognized. no fixmbr, fixboot, fixcfg/rebuild, same results with 6 pack floppy rescue disks. WD320 gb HD. did a test quick and full with floppy and came back as no errors found (Note the keyboard on my Girl Friends Computer writes only é for question mark.) I tried the linux Knoppix, with testdisk 6 and it reads the HD along with the files. Now if only I can figure out how to be a root administrator than maybe I can change the hal.dll from the i386 folder to the system32 and maybe get back on. This is a learning curve. Bought Power Suite 2008 PRO and this went fine till it would tell me that my windows OS is on D: not so. its on C: along with all other programs (NTFS). D: has the HP recovery files only (fat 32) Sent them an email, and they replied that they have given my problem to their teckkies and if and when they have a fix they will advise. (Nice reply, like .... out to lunch... will be back... sometime. So went to Microsoft and found that there was a Microsoft Diagnostic and recovery toolset which creates through a ISO a CD ERD command. Which I downloaded and tried. It goes and does it thing only to pop up with message The usage period for this ERD has expired. Like maybe 10 minutes. OUCH! I download again and do the CD and this time pop-up The usage period for this boot image has expired. This is the link... it does say 30 day evaluation. Right http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en How can I get and where else a ERD command download to make a valid CD reading up on nLite to make a set of CDs Please, can anyone help me get back on É
