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I have indeed found a CD key. It just seems a bit too good to be true. So is it the right CD key? And will this work?
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OK depending on the age of the Dell it may have a hidden Recovery partition on it.
Is the laptop able to boot into windows and if so then Try this and let me know.
Go to Start then to Run
Type in compmgmt.msc and click Enter
On left side click on Disk Management
On right side you will see you hard drive.
Now I need you to take a screenshot and attach it to your next reply. Do the following to take a screenshot while the above is open and showing on your desktop.
To do a screenshot please have click on your Print Screen on your keyboard. It is normally the key above your number pad between the F12 key and the Scroll Lock key
Now go to Start and then to All Programs
Scroll to Accessories and then click on Paint
In the Empty White Area click and hold the CTRL key and then click the V
Go to the File option at the top and click on Save as
Save as file type JPEG and save it to your Desktop
Attach it to your next reply
If it is not able to boot into windows then try this.
Recovery Partition access"
The key combination is CRTL + F11 pushing the keys at the same time at the the dell screen during post. Once you push them then you want to release them.
It should go into the recovery partition so you can do a system restore.
OK it doesn't look like a Recovery Partition is available but lets give it a try just in case.
Reboot the laptop and:
The key combination is CRTL + F11 pushing the keys at the same time at the the dell screen during post. Once you push them then you want to release them.
It should go into the recovery partition so you can do a system restore.
WARNING: This in most cases will format the system resulting in the loss of all data. Before doing this let me know if there is data that needs to be saved.
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