The problem is as follows. My assumption was that no one in their right mind who manufactured computers would store important BIOS information on the hard disk. (I know, I know....bad assumption, but this was back before I realized Compaq did this too, and maybe some others......I guess I just didn't foresee that some manufacturers could have such foolish ideas/implementations)
Anyhow, it is/was a great computer, and I love it. The only problem is that I fdisk'ed the thing when I saw a partition I didn't know what it was. It turns out that partition included things such as power saving operations, all of the laptop battery using features/etc..... which the BIOS used. Now, whenever I start that computer, it gets to a certain point and stops. (At the boot phase). It does this to notify me that that critical partition is missing and informs me to use this one utility (included on a CD that came with the computer) to fix it. Then I have to just press the space bar to continue----it makes a loud beep and continues and the OS loads fine.
The problem is that I DID use that utility----and MANY TIMES under many configurations. The utility has some sort of inherent bug/flaw in it and always has a fatal error instead of restoring my special partition.
If someone else has the same or similar model CTX EzBook computer and did not fdisk the entire drive (in other words, that special partition is still there), if you know how to, would you kindly make a file on your hard drive which contains all of the raw bytes contained in that partition and then link me to it? It is easy enough for me to do a hack job and write those bytes to the raw sectors on disk myself, but I need the raw bytes that are supposed to be in that partition. I can just use debug.exe to write the raw sectors onto disk from somewhere else on disk. Who cares that it will fudge up my operating system? I can always simply format all of the other partitions and then reinstall my OS.
BTW, this computer is no longer supported by the manufacturer, which is why I cannot ask them for help. (In fact, to my knowledge, CTX doesn't even make computers anymore. They just make computer monitors.)
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