gazfan

I managed to completely bork my new netbook while trying to do a backup, recently - all I got when trying to boot was a request for a system disk. I'd also borked the recovery partition.

The only way out was using the restore disks, which luckily I had burnt using an external DVD drive - however I did need to go into the BIOS & change the boot priorities to allow the sytem to boot from the external drive.