have not reinstalled since the last 5-6 years and am very proud of it
Kneo said:Managed to get hold of a old Digit DVD - which has Linspire. Can I try booting from this one? At what point do I quit as I don't want to mess up my existing Windows OS (have not reinstalled since the last 5-6 years and am very proud of it).
Naga said:Also, as sangram noted, just do a clean install with the latest drivers. 5/6 years is too long with a single installation of any Windows platform (also Linux maybe).
greenhorn said:take off your HDD and plug it into another PC/friends place. If you cant acess partitions on it, you might want to run some data recovery stuff
Kneo said:Is there no way I can get back my partitions? I am assuming that only the MBR may be destroyed
Kneo said:I don't remember the exact size of the first partition. It was around 20 Gb (I actually created the other partitions and the leftover space was assigned to C drive). Will the above be useful in that case?
Or else - can I do a quick format of the HDD and install Windows - install Partition Doctor (or something similar) and then try to recover my partitions? A quick format would only kill the partition table and my other data would still be recovered right?
It's just a question of which software.