Windows didn’t start and automatic start-up repair didn’t work.

[Runaj]

Product_name : HP Pavilion dv6929nr Entertainment Notebook PC
Operating system : Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic 32
problem description : Issue Description: Windows didn’t start and automatic start-up repair didn’t work.
(Unfortunately I don’t have recovery disks with me)

troubleshooting : Back ground info:
There were two partitions C and D (Original setting from the factory).
My data was in driver C.
Steps Taken:

1-Tried startup auto repair but it didnt work
2-Started recovery option by pressing f11 but it started re-formating it reached 1% then i switched off the computer, considering chances of data loss as i was not sure if data is safe or not.

Please help to confirm if i recover my laptop using recovery manager by pressing F11, the laptop will be recovered to original factory settings will data be able to recover or not?

[Rakhmad]

Yes it will recovered to factory installed state and erase all data only.

There is an option not to erase all, learn it here

For 1% of running system recovery, I'm not sure either it can be recovered.

[Mumbodog]

At 1% most of the data is still there, but is not accessible in the normal ways.

You would need to remove the hard drive, connect it to another PC using a hard drive USB adapter, then use this software to try and recover any data that was not overwritten. It will be a fairly slow process depending on the amount of data on the drive.

http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm