Need serious help!!!

[TimTheEnchanter]

This is pathetic. I did a small windows 7 update, pressed restart and went away. Next time i saw my computer, i saw the horrible message "a disk error occured"

Happens on startup with my HDD on dual boot win7/xp.

What can i do, i have never had such a problem.

I have only two hdds, both used.

I'll try to install Win7 on my flash drive and take back my data.

Help!

[CMetaphor]

Hmmmm, corrupt boot sector? Have you tried running the Win7 install disk and the trying a "fix startup" option (might not be what its called, id have to check for the exact wording)?

[TimTheEnchanter]

mmmm... forogt to say i am a noob. I get with usb drive no bootable partiton (they made a mistake, lol) in table.

What can i do?

[CMetaphor]

Whats with the usb key? Try getting the Windows 7 installation disk, put it in the system and boot off of it. Once its done loading, look for a repair option then find the "fix startup" or whatever its called and do that. hehe

[TimTheEnchanter]

Ok thanks CMetaphor i'll try this, you're fast

[CMetaphor]

Blame a slow day at work Let us know if it works or not, k?

[TimTheEnchanter]

No problem i'm on my netbook just in front of my PC, i tell the news at the same moment. The windows dvd is now loading, pretty long...

[TimTheEnchanter]

Ok, dvd loaded, went for the repair option, loaded the system recovery options (took a minute), found my W7 OS, chose the "use recovery tools that can help fix problems starting windows", clicked on "startup repair", searched for problems, said it could not detect a problem.

3 choices now :
-view diagnostic and repair details
-view advanced options for sstem recovery and support (this one i guess)
-finish (umm i guess not...)

so, which one?

[CMetaphor]

try the advanced tools and see if you can run "fixmbr" and "fixboot", im not certain about these tools with Windows 7 though since I haven't used it that much yet.... at least not enough to corrupt it . hehe.

[TimTheEnchanter]

clicking this brings me back to the menu : startup repair, system restore, system mage recovery, windows memory diagnostic, command prompt... how can i try running fixboot? command prompt? how?