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    wiping out my system

    Discussion in 'HP' started by baychan, Oct 16, 2005.

  1. baychan

    baychan Newbie

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    I have a compaq and I need to wipe the system completely out and start fresh. I don't want to use a system recovery disk. I thought during boot up I pushed F10 or F8 to get to the DOS screen. Please help.
     
    baychan, Oct 16, 2005
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    I thought it was F12, could be wrong.
     
    ZaZ, Oct 16, 2005
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  3. breezie

    breezie Notebook Consultant

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    he said Dos not bios (which is f10 or 11, it says it when u hit power)... you can't get to dos without a boot disk-
     
    breezie, Oct 16, 2005
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    vassil_98 Notebook Deity

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    you might try pushing F8 to get a selective startup of WindowsXP. I think there was a Prompt option there
     
    vassil_98, Oct 17, 2005
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  5. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    If you insert an XP disk and doot from CD, you can do a clean install that way. Not sure if that's what you're looking to do though.
     
    Brian, Oct 17, 2005
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