Posts by MarkMcK

Quote: Originally Posted by Curt Now I am going to find a way to recover my data, NTFS quick format and some data recovery tools seems like my best bet. What has happened is that the Dell boot code changed...

Quote: Originally Posted by dwayner Darn it all - I can't find a text editor that will run within the recovery console. So I cheat. Editbini from http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/editbini.zip works...

Just read your second post.... Makes good sense. I take it you're going to modify the boot.ini???? I think you're on to something as it is probably listing partition(4) when it sounds like it should be partition(3). I'll have to dig...

Quote: Originally Posted by sensesfusion Maybe it's because I have m1710 instead (not sure it's different), but I dont have to leave any space. Alot of the posts you are seeing are related to folks using the...

You can use a DOS-based program like eraserd which is included in the download for the Windows version. http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/download.shtml wrt the Dell partitions, you could delete them and create one 'big' partition...

If anyone cares for another 'vote'.... I'd go with Hammerhead's advice/order and do Norton last as well.... Mark

Quote: • PARTITIONS are likened to rooms in a house, because they separate different parts of a house into distinct areas for different purposes: for example, the kitchen for cooking, the bedroom for sleeping, and the...

Quote: Originally Posted by dwayner I tried using rmbr DELL 2 3 but with odd results: Starting from a full power-off state, pressing the media PLAY button brings up the Dell MediaDirect splash screen - and there it...

Not sure how rmbr does its 'counting'.... The Dell Diagnostic partition type might throw it off, but like I said, I don't pretend to understand how rmbr works.... 2/3 may be appropriate as well if it 'skips' over any extended partitions...

Quote: Originally Posted by dwayner I'm starting from a full shutdown. Press the "Play" button - I get the Dell MediaDirect screen for a few seconds, follwed with: "WIndows could not start because the...