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Vista & Toshiba System Volume dilemma

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This was previous posted elsewhere without results. So I Am working on Toshiba Satellite A205 S5804 that is not even booting up except to a black screen. I allowed Vista to repair itself which it could not do. Previous I got a BSOD. I have no system restore or recovery disks. The Toshiba System Volume (partition 1) of 2 starts at cyl 0, head 32, Sector 33. I do not think the partition should be starting out that far and that is my problem. Partition 2, both NTFS, starts directly thereafter. I ran spybot and and 2 AV's and no results. This was my sisters computer. Is my only option to fork over the $24.95 to Toshiba for recovery disks since in my opinion and that of Toshiba the System volume is damaged without repair-ability or do I have others?
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As I recall, Toshiba shipped systems with recovery disks until just before the release of Win7 - did yours come with them? If so, then it's likely that there's no recovery partition on the hard drive. It's likely that the "missing" stuff before cyl 0, head 32, sector 33 is the boot volume that helps to control the BitLocker stuff (and I don't know any more about that).

If System Repair didn't work, then the only alternatives (IMO) are either a repair install of Vista (I've never had any luck with these - especially on OEM systems) or a wipe and reinstall (which the recover disks will do).

The benefit of the Toshiba recovery disks is that you won't have to hunt for all the drivers that you'll need to have if you use a plain, vanilla OEM recovery disk (and you'd still have to find one of them).

US info for Toshiba Recovery Disks: http://www.carrona.org/recdisc.html#toshiba
I can not find anything previous to 0/32/33 (CHS) and I have looked with a few utilities. I got it with O disks from my sister and I will probably get the recovery disks from Toshiba as it just does not want to fix itself and I can not determine how to fill in all the blanks it seems to have. Thanks for your help..
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