I have a laptop *inspiron 9400. I left the computer scanning for viruses last night and I went to bed, this morning when I tried to log in the PC was non-responsive. I switched it off and started it up again, right before the log-in screen appears a blue screen came up stating some kind of error but it literally just blinks and I cant read what it says, immediately after the computer reboots itself again.
When I tried to use the Windows XP to repair the instaliation, it told me that my C drive wasnt formatted and “Partition = Unknon”. I have tons of info so I dont want to reformat without copying.
In the CD prompt “Do you want to run the Recovery Console?: I said yes, to which the system responded with a DOS prompt:
“C:”
It stays like that for hours with no indication that any recovery tool is being run.
When I ran the diagnostics facility it detected an error:
DST short test failed.
Should I give up and format C and lose all my info?
Thanks all.
