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Recovery disks.?

My friend has an Acer laptop that won’t boot. Some reason ALT F10 isn’t working. If I boot to a live linux disk, can I get the reovery manager to run to make the CD’s? By the way, he can’t boot becuase of an NTLDR is missing. I have speant a lot of time trying to fix this. So I need the disks or a possible fix.

Partition a hard drive?

OK, so here’s the deal. I have a laptop that has crashed. Since I do not have the recovery disks anymore I was just going to install Linux onto it. Thing is ,I go to select the partitions and there isn’t one there. I went to Gparted on the Linux live disk,but says no hardware found. Is there a way to pull up a CMD prompt to make a new partition from scratch? I believe my hard drive has failed,but oddly still pulls up the live CD. I don’t see how the computer can still go onto the live disk if the hard drive doesn’t work. So I am still confused if it’s the hard drive its self.Can there be another issue?

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Forgot to mention that the laptop is a Windows XP