combat goofwing
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a friend asked me to look at their daughters netbook as it would not boot, it came new with no disc etc (been told this is normal for dell and that it should have a recovery partition)
so i switched it on and you get the dell boot bar loading then it just goes to a blank screen, screen works cause i can get into bios no probs, no option to boot in safe mode though
so i did a bit of reading on the net and came across this
http://partedmagic.com/
so i installed it onto a usb and boot to usb which loads part magic, everything works on there wifi internet, tools etc etc
in this i ran checks on the HD and it said it was ok it gives its details as
149.01gib
/dev/sda/1 fat16 / media/sda1 dellutillity 39.19 mb
/dev/sda2/ntfs media sda2 os 149.01 gig
so i suspect the recover stuff is on the dell utility partition but how do i get to it if it will not boot from the HD
it a dell inspiron 10 net book
thanks for any help
so i switched it on and you get the dell boot bar loading then it just goes to a blank screen, screen works cause i can get into bios no probs, no option to boot in safe mode though
so i did a bit of reading on the net and came across this
http://partedmagic.com/
so i installed it onto a usb and boot to usb which loads part magic, everything works on there wifi internet, tools etc etc
in this i ran checks on the HD and it said it was ok it gives its details as
149.01gib
/dev/sda/1 fat16 / media/sda1 dellutillity 39.19 mb
/dev/sda2/ntfs media sda2 os 149.01 gig
so i suspect the recover stuff is on the dell utility partition but how do i get to it if it will not boot from the HD
it a dell inspiron 10 net book
thanks for any help