Laptop won't boot

Yes please but why is he not willing to send the recovery disks to you? Legally they should have been included with the system when he sold it to you.

Hi, rshaffer61! He's a friend. He'd sold the laptop to someone else who wanted to give it to me as a gift the Christmas before last. He probably figured he'd just fix it and give it back. He lives a bit away, so figured another friend headed down his way could bring it along.

OK but the recovery disks for that laptop are of no good for any other system if they are the original recovery disks. That is why I said they really should have been with the laptop since they won't work with any other system correctly.

Oh. I'll ask him. He didn't really address that, just said to send it down.

Something isn't right because there should be a recovery partition setup on the hard drive since no media was included.

Do you mean so that I could use thr Cnrl, F11 keystrokes and just repave? I couldn't back up or restore anything because I couldn't get the Hard Drive to boot.Or am I just not getting what you're saying?

If you can't get access the drive using a Linux Live cd you won't be able to backup anything. Unless your friend agreed to backup your data it sounds like what he is saying he will format the drive and reload windows.

Just wondering if you were able to use a linux Live cd to access your data yet?