Trying to fix someone's latop here and run into some problems, once it's finished posting a blinking white dash appears in screen and that's as far as it'll get, nothing further then this, not even a failure to find boot device error.
Ran chkdsk which found and fixed one or more bad sectors, still wont boot.
Tried Windows recovery console, nothing again but it still detects the XP installation without any problems.
Ran manufacturers HDD diagnostics tools, no more errors found.
Booted onto Ubuntu live cd, HDD spinning up fine, seemingly nothing corrupted, managed to pull a bunch of files off.
Cant use the recovery partition or boot into safe mode, doesnt get far enough.
Short of re-installing XP, anyone got any ideas I could try first?
Ran chkdsk which found and fixed one or more bad sectors, still wont boot.
Tried Windows recovery console, nothing again but it still detects the XP installation without any problems.
Ran manufacturers HDD diagnostics tools, no more errors found.
Booted onto Ubuntu live cd, HDD spinning up fine, seemingly nothing corrupted, managed to pull a bunch of files off.
Cant use the recovery partition or boot into safe mode, doesnt get far enough.
Short of re-installing XP, anyone got any ideas I could try first?