wowhai

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Okay, I'm screw, ever since last night, my HP ask me (yes she did) if I want to switch my graphic (I have dual graphic one is intel and one is ATI mobility Radeon), I click okay to switch to power saving graphic intel, and so the screen blacks out. It never respond after black out, I made hard restart and screen freeze at the win 7 icon. No lucky, I hard press again and start up to ask me if I want to scan for my previous startup problem, I did and it tried fixing the problem til next morning. No luck, give me a choice of to do a HP recovery or system recovery, some how I must have accidentally click on HP recovery and preceded to click through all the warnings, til it was at 1% then I realized that it was going to delete all my DATA!!!!!!

Well, I was still very sleepy when I decided to terminate that recovery...by power shut down.
So power up: "BOOTMGR is Missing Press Crtl-Alt-Del to restart"
I went through F11 system recovery to try and see if I can still recover, but no luck, later i tried some steps in cmd window:

bootrec/fixmbr
bootrec/fixboot
bootrec/rebuildbcd
bootrec/scanos
got error says I have zero OS installed!

Bcdboot c:\windows also give me failure when attempting to copy boot files

I restarted, try and try again, but now it won't even let me into system recovery says "BOOTMGR is missing" now I can't even access my command to try some recovery without totally deleting my files.... I tried burning a win7 ultimate iso to a DVD and try boot from there but it says no OS system found.

My computer is HP touchsmart with switchable graphic, HP has a recovery partition that can restore my computer but I don't know how to access it now. Can't get pass the screen of BOOTMGR is missing...

I learn my lesson don't touch computer til im fully sober. I may have done the DVD bootable wrong. And now I NEED EXPERT HELP! MY NOVICE SKILL HAS TAKEN ME NO WHERE, PLEASE EXPERTS REPLY WITH INSTRUCTIONS..........

My original system is win 7 home premium 64x, but all I have at my disposal is a copy of win 7 ultimate 64x.
Some specs of my computer:
HP touchsmart with switchable graphic, intel i5 and ATI mobility
Only has one OS: Windows 7 Home premium 64x
Has HP recovery partition, and 300GB of other space.
have this InsydeH20 Setup Utility Rev. 3.5 and currently all I can do is do some random scans.. Primary hard disk self test, and then memory test, I don't expect to see any problems since I have this done with in the HP system recovery environment..
 


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I tried data rescue in gparted for C drive, but it gives this error: Command Gpart was not found. "This feature uses gpart. Please install gpart and try again"
 


I will try to address some of your questions in the last few posts.

The files on the Desktop should be located in the Users\YourUser\Desktop folder.

If you have saved the files you want to keep, you can do a factory re-image and it will put your system back to the factory basic. I am not sure what any other type recovery might do. Too bad you do not have a backup image you made.

Gparted should run just fine. It says it has a capability to recover data, so if you want to try before you do a factory restore, it probably would not hurt, but I have never tried it, so not sure what any error messages might mean. Possibly the fact it is an NTFS partition will mess up GParted. But did you get Gparted to run from the Ubuntu desktop?
 


Yes I was able to get the Gparted to run, but once I selected data rescue it gives me that error.
 


I found this site about reinstalling if you can't get the F11 recovery process to work. It mentions that using the recovery media will try to repair the recovery partition, but will go ahead without it if necessary. I suppose cancelling a recovery operation may have ended up causing unusual problems.

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Have you concluded that some of your files were missing, like the Users directory or something else?

The only other thing I could suggest is to run a Chkdsk on your drive. You should be able to do that from the command prompt. Maybe it will recover something.
 


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