I have a Toshiba M35 with XP Home Edition. I installed a game CD called Marine Sharpshooter on it and after restarting my notebook it wouldn't load windows or start in safemode. I changed boot sequence to boot from cd/dvd drive. When I put in my recovery cd it loads like it's supposed to and I follow the instructions. When symantec ghost comes up it starts doing it's thing, but it will only run until it gets to 3% done. It stalls at 3% and then it keeps running for about 15 minutes and then I get an error message saying that the recovery failed. I don't know the exact message because I'm at work. What can I do?
Last night I did a format c: and of course now it say's that the OS cannot be found. I tried my recovery disck again and of course it failed so figuring I had nothing to lose I took my XP OS disk from my home pc and tried to load it too. I don't remember the error message, but it failed also. Is this a good indication that my hard drive is done? My optical works just fine. I've been advised to do an FDISK, but I really don't want to do that. I'd prefer to just get another hard drive because I really need this issue resolved by friday. I can have another drive delivered by 6 PM tomorrow. I just think that the FDISK option is a little risky. What do you think?
