Jim,
Thanks for the reply, I was beginning to think my messages weren't
getting to the group.
Anyways, I couldn't find any kind of answer online, so I just
repartitioned the system and reinstalled. I have no idea what my sister
did. The only explanation I got was that she clicked on games, saw
something again for games or 'more games' and then the system locked on
her, or she couldn't find out to go further or get out of it, so she
shut the computer down. The only rational explanation I can think of is
that she shut down the computer in the midst of an update. However, I
don't know what could possibly create an extra partition and turn them
all to GPT.
Steve
On 1/14/2014 2:51 PM, Jim Edwards wrote:
Have you tried to low level format the drive?
My sister bought an HP Envy computer, which I had to downgrade from Win8
to Win7 (64 bit). She's legally blind, so needs a lot of visual help to
see the computer. However, that's not the question...
Somehow she screwed up the install, then trying to do a system restore
only resulted in things getting worse, so I resorted to a reinstall.
When I originally installed, I cleared out all the partitions, then
created a new one, which meant, I had one for 100MB and another for the
balance of the 1T disk. Now, when I went to reinstall, there were 3
partitions, the extra one was 78MB and suddenly they were all GPT which
meant I could not install Win7 to any of them. As far as I know, I
shouldn't have been able to install Win7 to begin with if the partitions
were GPT.
Any idea how this could happen? I want to do something to make sure it
doesn't again. Right now, the only thing I can think of is that she got
some kind of malware.
Thanks...Steve
