HP8290

[highriskrc]

I work at the Boys and Girls Club in Kingsport, TN and they have a Desktop HP Pavillion 8290 that I can't get to recognize the recovery disk or the windows opperating system in general.... does anyone know how I can access DOS from the start of the computer????
Thanks in advance,
Robbie :-\

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[Loz]

Hi Robbie thanks for joining us... Ok first can you tell me can you boot a cd? (not windows recovery) Do you have a floppy drive?
If so then i can help you.. If not you will have to tell me what is happening to you computer.. Also check that in the Bios u have is set to boot from CD as the first option... (Press F2 or DEL on Start up and look for boot up options)
Let me know the answers to my questions will tell you the answer Loz

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If you can boot from cd then you can download this click this link....ÂÂ! http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html just click the little zip or exe icons... to download.. This will allow you to boot up a windows start up disk and then u can access dos. Using the normal dos keys! You can read about all the features of this cd here http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ and see screen shots..

[helliel]

Hay Loz I have Two hard drives on my computer And I had to get the second hard drive because of the problem on the other one. Well one day after dealing with Mailware on my computer it would not start up It said to go into Control Console and repair \system32\config\system\ and that it might repair it. I went into Control Console I tryed eveything there is no command for Repair on the Control Console I would type in Help F:\Windows> Help it would then give me the commands on wich I could use to help me with my sistuation but there is no command that I know of that Repairs SYSTEM please help