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HP Pavilion F10

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I was about to do a restore on my computer today. I restarted my computer and hit the F10 key like always, but nothing happens, the computer just restarts. I tried it repeatedly with the same result. I went back to my computer and seen that the restore partition is still there can anyone tell me why I cannot get my restore working? Is there a way around this I mean is there another way to activate my restore?
 
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Ok talked to my friend this is what he said I copyed and past it.

I haven't heard of systerm recovery but heard of system restore. If he's got Windows XP, go to START, PROGRAMS, ACCESSORIES, SYSTEM TOOLS, SYSTEM RESTORE. Next, the default option is "restore my computer to an earlier time". Leave it at that, click NEXT, you will then get a calendar. Click on a date that you see in bold and has a large font. The number of the date will look bigger than the other date numbers. You can select a date to revert back to a date where you last had your computer in a working state before a virus or serious error had occurred. Click NEXT and it will either confirm your option or it will start restoring. Let the computer do the rest.

This may be what I think you're talking about. If not, I have not heard of anything called "system recovery." I don't know anything about the COMMAND line. If you're referring to clicking START, then RUN, I only know "regedit" which I leave alone because changing anything can do some harm, and the other is "msconfig" in which you can select what programs to deactivate when Windows XP boots up.
 
#8 ·
For the full recovery F10 The problem might be that the recovery partition is no longer there. Did you make a recovery disk set? If so on some models of computer the making of a recovery disk set then removes certain information from the recovery partition and it might no longer be available.

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My recovery partition is still there. The only thing is I can no longer do restore my computer by restarting and hitting F10

Computer Information
HP Pavilion 505w
Windows Xp Home
1GB of Memory
2.19GHz Intel Celeron Processor

I am not sure why I am no longer able to access my restore partition, but I its there. I was just wondering if there was a way to manually start my recovery partition?
 
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