hold on i think it's working...i have my windows xp cd in my dvd rom drive and for some reason, when i go to boot the broken drive which i'm trying to fix (NTLDR error, my friend thought it would be funny to completely delete my windows xp partition.) and it comes up with "press f to format, and q to quit." so i pressed f. figured that could solve my problem, it starts up hp recovery...wait, i deleted that partition awhile ago. looked at my dvd rom drive, and the green light was going crazy... then i remember that my xp cd isnt an install cd, its a recovery cd...duh! so lets see how this works out. and fyi, ive tried to do fixboot, fixmbr, didnt work. windows 7 cd would repair it i heard, but it wouldn't boot it, thats how i got here. so i guess it's still not booting the cd, but the cd drives still work, so i will just let the system restore do it's thing, and that should fix it. if not i still have no idea.
