Hi everyone, I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop and currently am having a serious windows problem. A little while ago, I encountered the BSOD and proceeded to restart the computer. When I did so, I was notified that my 'system' file was either missing/corrupt and thus windows could not boot. After thinking of a way to recover my data, I decided to use BartPE, and successfully recovered everything I needed. Now, since my laptop is Dell, I remembered that they always include some sort of 'ghost' partition that allows you to run the original setup while also formating the hard drive (I believe) - i think it goes by the name of Dell Recovery Symantec something or the other... Anyway, after I did this and ran the original setup, my laptop restarted. And NOW this is where I am having the oddest problem - IT STILL WONT BOOT! Except now I get a white screen similar to the BIOS loading one, and it has the message 'File Allocation Table Bad, Drive C' and has a bunch of symbols underneath while logged into DOS. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to get my laptop running again. I have tried all the chkdsk options in the recovery console. I am primarily wondering if I load up my XP CD, delete the partitions that are already there and just reinstall XP all together if that will work? Any thoughts......
