Hello. So I have a hard drive problem and the computer won't start. It wants me to use the HP Recovery Manager but I'm not sure if that will delete my wallet.dat file. I get to the the part where it says "Recovery Manager will reset the hard drive to factory condition. User Data and hard drive changes will be lost." I'm afraid to continue because I don't want it to delete the wallet.dat file. Does anyone know if HP Recovery Manager will delete the wallet.dat file or if it is safe to try?
Thanks!
Take that drive completely out and install Windows on a new drive, even a cheap 40GB drive, then, once Windows has settled and is working, shut the computer off, add your old drive and start it up, you may have to use BIOS to set the boot order. AFter that you might need to use the drive manager to add the drive, but do not format it.