Shoutbox

Ok, so I fix computers at my work, and I got to work today and there was a computer sitting there and the issue was the famed "NTLDR is missing". So I figured, "Oh, this one is easy, I've dealt with it numerous times"... but before I do anything usually, I boot with UBCD and run chkdisk, well this time when I booted this computer (which is a compaq machine by the way), I saw nothing on the hard drive!

There were two partitions as expected, the main os partition and the recovery partition. Both named properly, but on the main partition NOTHING is there (142 GB out of 142 Free). Now the recovery partition is a whole different ballgame. There are the general low level boot files, but all the necessary files that are required to re-image the hard drive, and gone (152 MB Used of 6.62 GB available).

I'm sitting here pondering how someone can even manage this. I must note that this customer is not the kind to stick in boot disks and format from command line and so on... I just cannot comprehend this!