Hey guys
My mother-in-law's computer died. It was working one day, and the next day they got a "Operating system not found..." error message right after POST.
I've removed the hard drive and plugged it into an external USB chassis. It shows up as a drive in Windows, but gives the "The drive is not formatted, would you like to format now?" error when trying to explore it. It looks like it's lost it's partitioning.
I ran a recovery tool on it and it looks like most of the data will be recoverable. My question is, however, if there is a tool I can use to fix the partition information so that the drive will boot again? I really want to avoid the hassle and time a data-copy and re-install is going to take. Plus, it'll make a great impression on my new in-laws.
Any suggestions or information will be appreciated.
Thanks,
H