[plug] Recovering Windows setup partition

[Scott Middleton]

On My Toshi laptop I have to hold the "0" key down to enter the hidden
recovery mode. You are going to have to find out what you need to do
for that particular model. This is not really documented anywhere it
was a google search.




2009/10/30 Kevin Shackleton <kevins at reachnet.com.au>:
> I have someone's PC with a fairly corrupt Windows setup - drops to BSOD
> after just a few seconds.  BSOD does not stay up long enough to read.
> System has been up for over an hour with Ubuntu live boot.
>
> Of course these poor mortals didn't create a system setup DVD with their
> new machine.  And I don't see them as handling anything but XP.  The
> good news though is that using the live CD I see it there's a 6 GB sda1
> FAT32 partition with the  'hidden' flag set.  The contents of this
> partition seem to be exactly a Windows setup DVD of 3.70 GB.
>
> Question is - what do I do to recover the setup partition?  A couple of
> options are to either set up the partition as not-hidden and bootable,
> and set up a boot loader so I can pick this partition to boot from, or
> else to write the contents of this partition to a bootable DVD, even
> though there' presently a live CD in the optical drive.
>
> (of course having access to the recovery option in Windows is no
> assurance of achieving a stable system some time in the future!)
>
> I've done a bit of googling for some hints without success.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin.
>
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