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by u4mist

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I used gparted to extend my c-drive in vista 32bit after running gparted i rebooted. once i past the logo screen and the f2 - f8 - f12 Screen i get a blinking cursor and can go no further I've tried booting form recovery dvd nothing happens, and yes i changed it in the bios to boot form cd-dvd. please help.i feel like a lost child. PS.it's a lenovo 3000 k100. Intel core 2 duo. 2gb of ddr2 memory. sata 500gb hard drive vista home premium

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by darryl~

Press F11 while booting.

Rescue & Recovery should start.

Select restore system & maintain programs & files.

If that doesn't work, you'll probably have to do a factory restore (same way, F11 while booting except select factory default)

by u4mist

thank you darryl for your quick response but the problem is that the rescue partition was deleted to free up space to extend c:drive add that to the fact that i can't boot from dvd drive or usb. question is what do i do know. any help would be greatly appreciated.thank you so much.

by msnep

You posted twice and I replied the other one already.

Anyway, if your computer had a recovery partition, maybe the "recovery disc" you have is from the manufacturer, not from MS. Maybe your recovery disc doesn't work anymore because you removed the recovery partition from the hard disc. I'm not familiar with Lenovo though.

Here you can download a Vista recovery disc, with which you might be able to boot, and then run recovery tools (e.g. Repair Startup, bootrec)

http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/

Note: I haven't had a chance to try this download myself, so I can't guarantee it's a good image.

by u4mist

i've downloaded the iso going to burn it to dvd, I'll let you know how it gose

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