hp dv9000 recovery problems

Hello,

I am wondering if someone here may be able to give me some advice. I having some major problems with a DV6000 notebook.

I originally set the machine up with two partitions, one for his documents and the C: My problems started when I was doing some routine maintenance to the machine which belongs to my brother. The C partition was getting quite low so I decided to knock some space of d and add to c. I have done this many times using partition magic but for some reason it failed.

This left me we a hall.dll error on boot, however the machine will still boot if I pressed enter. It also meant that I had about 2 gig of partitioned space, plus the 1 gig for quick launch.

I re-added the 2gig space back to D using gParted, but still no luck, so I then decided to reinstall quick launch, which seemed to go ok accept that after I rebooted, Nothing, just a blinking cursor on the screen.

I then tired to do a recovery using the disks, of course though disk two and three are stuffed. I cant see anywhere, where it asks me to press f11 to restore from the recovery partition which still should be intact.

My computer seems to read the damaged disks ok, so as I last chance I am copying them onto brand new disks but I am not hopfull of this working.

Is there some way in advance to access this recovery partition, I read something in another thread about making it active. Could I boot with gParted (or use diskpart) and make it active? I know its poor form to join a forum and post problems right away, but I am desperite here! Any advice would be greatly appricateded.

Regards

Sam

hi ghn,

thanks so much for replying. Sadly (as expected) it didn't work, they died in exactly the same spot. Worse still HP won't send out new disks .

I don't know what to do now. It seems like I stuffed the recovery partition as well because pressing f11 repeatedly on boot does nothing and pressing f10 just opens the bios. And what makes me more certain of this is I checked with DiskPart and it dosen't list any 9 gig partitions.

I really don't want to format this machine but now it seems like it might be my only shot.

Thanks again

Sam

I understand this is the case in the U.S. but it seems to be different here in Australia.

I rang them and basically they just said they dont send them out any more and I would need to take it to a service center and get it done there.