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Do you remember what partition sizes was made on that drive? The only other thing I can tell you to do is to run a disk diagnostic on that drive to see if maybe the drive is somehow corrupt. If that don't fix it then put that drive in a good system find out what partitions are available by doing into disk management.
Download the ISO on this page and burn it to cd.
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=606&sid=30&lang=en
You will need burning software to burn the image to cd, like nero, roxio or something similar. After creating the cd you would need to boot to it and run the short and long tests.
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=606&sid=30&lang=en
You will need burning software to burn the image to cd, like nero, roxio or something similar. After creating the cd you would need to boot to it and run the short and long tests.
You don't just copy the iso file to a cd. The iso is an image file, you must use burning software to actually burn the image file to cd, if done correctly it will have more than one file on that cd, in fact there will be 5 files all together. Find the option in your burning program where it says burn image.
Again, you might want to put that drive in another system and go into disk management to detemine whats up with the balance of the drive. You may or may not have partitioned the balance of it and you have a blank drive to install windows on. It's kind of hard to tell you what to do when you weren't the one to set the drive up.
I don't really have another computer to try the drive out, so I may end up having to take it back to my computer guys when they are open again next week.
I wonder if I should email them and see if they know how they set it up. When I talk to them, what would you recommend I say regarding the hard drive? I know very little about hard drive stuff.
I wonder if I should email them and see if they know how they set it up. When I talk to them, what would you recommend I say regarding the hard drive? I know very little about hard drive stuff.
I wouldn't call them much of computer guys if they can't set up your hard drive correctly. Since you only have a 131gb partition out of the 640 gb drive, either they didn't set it up properly for you or something happened to the other partitions( which using disk manager would tell you if they were even made. But since you don't have another computer to put the drive into, we have no idea whats going on.
So, I guess I am stuck for now?
And regardless of the size of the partition on the drive, I still can't get it to repair. I never get the option to repair windows xp, but it only shows the size of the partition and won't let me go any farther unless I want to reformat, which I don't.
Oh, I wanted to ask you about hitting F2 to use the Automated System Recovery when I boot from my Windows upgrade cd.
I read somewhere that if all else fails, run the Automated System Recovery.
And regardless of the size of the partition on the drive, I still can't get it to repair. I never get the option to repair windows xp, but it only shows the size of the partition and won't let me go any farther unless I want to reformat, which I don't.
Oh, I wanted to ask you about hitting F2 to use the Automated System Recovery when I boot from my Windows upgrade cd.
I read somewhere that if all else fails, run the Automated System Recovery.
The automated recovery is only if its set up. In your case, I highly doubt that it is. The reason why you don't see the repair option in your case is because there it looks like there is only 1 active partition and windows is not on it. You have a blank drive, you would have to do a fresh install. But without hooking your drive to another computer to find out how the rest of the drive is setup, i can't tell you what to do. Most likely you have formatted your drive and lost your installation of windows, unless you know how your drive was set up. How about putting your drive in a friends computer?
I will see if anybody is around this weekend to help me.
As far as the Windows not being set up on the partition I am showing, I don't know what it was showing before, but Windows always worked until I got this virus, and that is when all this went haywire. Could the virus format the partition that Windows was on?
While using the Malwarebytes and Hijack to rid my computer of this junk, I think I was asked to restart, but haven't been able to start back up since.
As far as the Windows not being set up on the partition I am showing, I don't know what it was showing before, but Windows always worked until I got this virus, and that is when all this went haywire. Could the virus format the partition that Windows was on?
While using the Malwarebytes and Hijack to rid my computer of this junk, I think I was asked to restart, but haven't been able to start back up since.