![]() ![]() ![]() So I opened setup, checked to see if bios was reading the drive, it is definitely reading it and it was already at the top of the boot order. I attempted to get it to boot from the cd after the post, no prompt "strike any key to boot from cd' had ever popped up before. God knows there was enough popups at start up. I could leave it for more than 10 minutes with no progress, so I chalked it up to hard drive issues. I thought maybe it was the cd, so I tried several. At which point it would freeze the program. The windows xp program would pop up and then offer to run the install ect. I need to point out that it would, at that point, read the cd. I booted into safemode and went to the desktop and popped in the cd. I tried F12 as advertised in the post but that 'utility partition' takes you to a program that runs 'diagnostics' on the hardware but didn't seem to offer any possibility of a reformat or return to factory. Upon boot I could not locate the utility partition. I figured a reformat would fix it, done deal. ![]() It was given to me because it was 'running slow'. Working on a Dell Dimension E310 desktop. ![]()
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