Dear All,
Thank you so much for all the advices it help a lot. My daughter's laptop is now working. The whole drive was reformatted starts with dos command. Although some docs were lost.
Regards,
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 31, 2011, at 1:33, "RogerX19" <helpmeroger@earthlink.net> wrote:
> That would normally be good advice, but her laptop reports:
>
> drive c: 40gb, free space 40gb, drive d: 112.gb and
> used space 3.12gb.
>
> What I can't imagine is how C: got completely deleted. She says it's a laptop she bought for her daughter to use, about a month ago.
>
> As you know, you cannot delete Windows, nor reformat the drive that Windows is in, while Windows is running.
>
> Not that young people cannot be endlessly creative, but what would such a person have to do to completely wipe their own C: drive, and why?
>
> The computer has neither floppy drive, nor internal CD/DVD, so she would have to what? start the computer from a bootable USB thumbdrive and from there reformat C:?
>
> But why? Possibly an infected thumbdrive that, if left in the computer during boot up, and IF USB is set as first in the Boot Priority, runs a program that completely wipes your C: drive ?
>
> That would be a nasty trick to play on someone.
>
> rogerX
>
> --- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, David Ron <david.m.ron@...> wrote:
> >
> > If there is any sign that there may be a hard drive failure, you should seriously consider backing up EVERYTHING before re-installing or doing any other operation that makes substantial use of the hard drive (thereby increasing the likelihood of total loss of data).
> >
> > --David
> >
> >
> >
> > On 08/29/2011 09:03 PM, Susheel Kumar wrote:
> > >
> > > Well for this i suggest you to format the the os or it may be a attack of a
> > > virus
> > >
> > > -susheel
> > > www.susheelonline.com
> > > www.blogentry.in
> > >
> > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:49 AM, RogerX19 <helpmeroger@... <mailto:helpmeroger%40earthlink.net>> wrote:
> > >
> > > > **
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On first glance, it would appear that the hard drive has died.
> > > >
> > > > When the computer first boots up, you'll get the MSI logo screen, and a
> > > > message to press a certain key to enter Setup.
> > > >
> > > > Press that key, and when the Setup screens open, look to see if there is a
> > > > hard drive listed. If so, you may be able to save it.
> > > >
> > > > If not, you may need to purchase a new one.
> > > >
> > > > let us know
> > > >
> > > > ps .. please tell us what steps you took when you "tried to reformat"
> > > >
> > > > rogerX
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:simplycomputers2%40yahoogroups.com>, "Mar A. Calica" <marcalica@>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Dear all,
> > > > > I bought Msi Netbook U135DX with Windows 7 Starter for my dsughter. She's
> > > > been using for more than a month i gave her. Now she's complaining the
> > > > Operating System is missing.
> > > > >
> > > > > I tried to reformat but it says "it's unable to creat a new partition or
> > > > locate an existing system parition"
> > > > >
> > > > > Please advise me what's the best thing for me to do.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you so much.
> > > > >
> > > > > Sent from my iPhone
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards
> > > Susheel Kumar
> > > MCA HBTI Kanpur
> > > 8400605954
> > >
> > > http://www.susheelonline.com
> > > https://profiles.google.com/susheel1104
> > > http://www.mouthshut.com/susheel1104
> > > http://www.facebook.com/susheel1104
> > >
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