You may be able to boot from the recovery partition using a hard disk utility. I would suggest first cloning the entire drive, and work on the cloned drive instead of the original. Paragon Software Group has free versions of several hard disk utilities at: http://www.paragon-software.com/free/ Jan Werner __________________ Herb Singleton wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's > area. ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > A bit of a hail mary, but I figured I'd try - does anyone have a > recovery disk for a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop hanging around? The > boot sector of the startup-disk for a laptop went bad so I can't get > to the recovery partition and I'd like to see if I can salvage this > install. > > thx > > Herb _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss > mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion > list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the > Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > >