Dual boot laptop disaster

[Cyrus9008]

Hey all, I have a HP Pavilion dv6-6104nr laptop that I tried dual booting windows 7 home premium and Linux. I resized the existing windows partition in 2 and formatted the other partition ext3(I believe) but I could not install linux and now I cannot boot into windows anymore. I attempted to reformat my Windows 7 and reinstall windows but windows cannot even see a hard drive anymore. Windows recovery disk does nothing and I cannot load to a previous date. I'm running out of ideas, do you think the HDD itself could be damaged? Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[lakedude]

Hdd is most likely not damaged.

 

[lakedude]

Download an iso of puppy Linux and burn a bootable live CD. Boot the computer with puppy. Do not attempt to install anything. Puppy will run perfect right from the CD.

Fire up Gparted (included with Puppy)and report back with the results.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=puppy

Use Gparted to set up the partitions however you want.

 

[Cyrus9008]

Thx lemme do that and ill report back soon

 

[lakedude]

Gparted is like Partition Magic except for that it is free and works from a CD, which makes it perfect. It has a GUI so you can see/visualize what is going on.

If you have trouble with one flavor of Puppy try another, like an older one or like FatDog-64 which is made to run on new hardware.