dell bios

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How do you get in the bios of a old dell .delete don't work,and f2 didn,t
work
thank you.

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"William E. Holmes Sr" <wholmess@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message
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> How do you get in the bios of a old dell .delete don't work,and f2 didn,t
> work
> thank you.
>
I have just reloaded Windows XP Home on an oldish Dell Desktop machine,
which had suffered delete trouble, Windows was not running, I found that
performing a Ctrl Alt Delete, followed immediately by holding down F12,
selected the BIOS settings, thus allowing me to set up the machine to boot
from CD Rom and thus allow the Windows XP update CD Rom to be booted from
rather than the corrupted Hard Drive. Thus was able to do a full reinstall.

Mind you this computer was already running with an NTFS main partition, so
perhaps it is too young for your own problem.

73 de John

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