Thread: Can't press F10 on startup...

Originally Posted by guitarboy

I used F8 for safe boot, once. F10 is the correct one, I believe, for system recovery.
What are you trying to do it for?

To recover my system .___.

I need to reset it to factory settings.

Originally Posted by slayer

To recover my system .___.

I need to reset it to factory settings.

You may be better off just formatting and reinstalling.

If you can boot into your windows system at all you could back your data up to an external medium, or if you cannot boot into windows you can boot into a live system like knoppix or ubuntu and copy your files to an external medium that way then reinstall windows.

As for hitting F10 it has to be during the bios boot, as in even before you see the screen giving you the option to click it. Your going to want to tap F10 or F8 or F12 depending on your bios as soon as you hit your power button, but if that doesn't work try reinstalling windows using the methods I mentioned above, just remember to back up what you need. If you successfully hit f10 during the bios screen you should hear a loudish beep from your system speaker. Don't know if that clears anything up.

Originally Posted by sanispirational

You may be better off just formatting and reinstalling.

If you can boot into your windows system at all you could back your data up to an external medium, or if you cannot boot into windows you can boot into a live system like knoppix or ubuntu and copy your files to an external medium that way then reinstall windows.

As for hitting F10 it has to be during the bios boot, as in even before you see the screen giving you the option to click it. Your going to want to tap F10 or F8 or F12 depending on your bios as soon as you hit your power button, but if that doesn't work try reinstalling windows using the methods I mentioned above, just remember to back up what you need. If you successfully hit f10 during the bios screen you should hear a loudish beep from your system speaker. Don't know if that clears anything up.

The F10 thing just isn't working...

And I don't know what you mean by the first part. I have no recovery disc, and if I do, I have no idea where it is at. I've tried asking others if they have a recovery disc, and they don't.

Originally Posted by slayer

The F10 thing just isn't working...

And I don't know what you mean by the first part. I have no recovery disc, and if I do, I have no idea where it is at. I've tried asking others if they have a recovery disc, and they don't.

You can download and burn the image for the linux systems and use them for live boot to back up your data before format. If you just want to format and reinstall XP then your going to need a XP disk. I'm assuming that is what your trying to do by resetting your system to factory settings, make everything as it was when you got it. If you lost the disk and can't find one but want to reinstall windows there is not much I can help you with.

Well, I didn't need the disc or the F10 key.

I found out that there is a PC Recovery and Tools folder that has a system recovery in it

computer should be good for now

sanispirational, Slayer wants to recover his HP system back to how HP gave it to him. Not exactly a smart way to go about it, in my opinion.

Slayer, are you sure you don't need a recovery disc, in order to use the files you found?

I've already done the PC recovery. It didn't delete everything on my computer but it really cleaned it up.

So I didn't have to redownload all my games (thank god)

Edit: If anything, I should really just get a new computer. This one sucked from the day we got it...