Packard Bell Imedia 5009 Recovery

[chipster]

Hi all,

 

I decided to restore my Packard Bell Imedia 5009 (XP Home) to factory settings using the 4 recovery cds that came with it 6 years ago.

The recovery program started but when it was going through Bios checks it stopped saying "invalid media type reading drive c"

After reading some other problems of a similar nature I used the fdisk program on the master recovery disc to create new primary dos partition then formatted c:

The same problem is still coming up saying "invalid media type reading drive c"

 

Please help, I don't know whether I need to buy a new hard drive, operating system but I just want to get it working again!!!

[Plastic Nev]

Hi Chipster and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help.

Can you tell us why you decided to do a restore back to the original factory settings? Whatever happened may give us some idea as to what may be wrong, but at the moment it does sound like a problem with the hard drive itself.

Nev.