Shoutbox

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Originally posted by djdannyp
You can format your laptop by putting your windows cd into it (or perhaps a recovery cd that may have come with it to restore it to factory settings)

then enter the bios (during the pre start-up routing there will be an "F" button to press to get into 'bios' or 'setup', sometimes F2) and make sure that it is set to "Boot from CD" and then when it restarts you can press a button to make it boot from the cd and this will launch the facilities on the cd to format your laptop and reinstall windows

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ok here's my 2 cents, a format probably isn't needed, a windows repair should fix it with out the loss of any data,
you should never turn a computer off while it's installing something especially an operating system update

also the bios access will probably be f2 or delete and the one time boot menu on a dell should be f12