hey all, I have a few people staying around my house at the moment and its possible one or two of them have been on my laptop and somehow messed everything up. I came home from work one day loaded up my laptop, and on startup a black screen came up saying that a file was missing i don't know the name but it was in \WINDOWS so i knew it was important. I ended up try the system recovery built in my laptop which failed, I tried another recovery on the the disc i got with the laptop, and it was one of the softer recoveries that also didn't work I then tried the recovery that creates a whole new systems and keeps a copy of my old disk structure. This worked, but now i have a very low disc space?!?!? I also had to do the whole first time set up thing, and a few things ended up different, none of my programs work, there not in the start menu, only in the old disk structure?? So what can i delete? and how can i get back exactly what i had before ? thanks in advance
someone here in the forums had something similar to your problem. here's the link below. I think your missing some of your system files that need to be reinstalled. One thing I would strongly recommend is that you make up an image of your c: partition drive with the demo of "acronis true image" and save it somewhere, that way if you damage your original during repairs, you always have a good backup that can be reinstalled to continue repairs. As long as the hard drive is not damaged most boot problems can be repaired. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/530792
hey thanks for your help but I'm not having a boot problem. I have a really low disk space because I basically have two copies of my hard drive. Do you know what I can delete? I mean as in folders such as WINDOWS and PROGRAM FILES etc... thanks
