Quote Originally Posted by Orion6
** Error: invalid extended ptbl found at sector(131468400).
That is pretty strange. It seems to me to be saying that the extended partition table is corrupt. But that's the partition table that holds the logical drives (in your case I would expect that to be the HP recovery partition). It shouldn't have anything to do with the C partition, which is a physical partition pointed to by the MBR, not a logical drive in the extended partition table.