Recovery Partition

[Robbie]

Hey

I have a Compaq Presario CQ50. It came with a recovery partition (PRESARIO_RP). I removed Vista and put XP on it but I wanted Vista back so I tried to boot into recovery by pressing F11 at POST, didnt work and booted into XP. So I went into disk management and tried to set the recovery partition to active as I have done before when this has happened, but it was greyed out.

So I loaded Windows 7 disk and removed the XP partition so I was left with only the recovery partition so it would boot to that. Now I get

"NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"

and cannot perform recovery. Any idea how I can get into this? All the files are still o the partition as 9gb of 10 is taken up on it.

Any help will get rep.

thanks!

[scottish]

cause for ntldr error is
Computer is booting from a non-bootable source.
Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS.
Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file.
Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file.
New hard disk drive being added.
Corrupt boot sector / master boot record.

[Robbie]

Sorted it now, thanks anyway.