[Locoboy2222]

I am in need of help for a noob.... My mini has been broken for a while so i just put it in my droor and its been their for about a month so tonight i turned it on and before about a week ago i turned it on and it said no operating system found that was the problem so i was going to take it in to reinstall windows starter but thats 50 bucks a 13 year old doesnt have well i have the operating system disk and i want to put it on a flash drive and boot the disk from the thumbdrive thank you if you could help and i just turned on my computer and it letme load windows and it stayed at a black screen after booting and with the mouse icon so i cntrl alt delete nothing i have tried pushing f8 or whatever it is. ive restarted my computer once and it worked like 2 months ago but then my computer crashed like 1 day after so... Here i am 2 months later wanting to fix my laptop.... Please helpp....

[rrfranczak3]

there should be a restore partition on the hard drive

PS. it's spelled 'Drawer' NOT Droor...and mean There NOT their......your teachers would be very upset with you

[Locoboy2222]

Originally Posted by rrfranczak3

there should be a restore partition on the hard drive

PS. it's spelled 'Drawer' NOT Droor...your teachers would be very upset with you

Sorry lol its summer i dont really care about that stuff till about a couple weeks till school starts>:0 so im guesing im going to need word and powerpoint for highschool so i wnated to fix my laptop...
How do i access the restore partion on my harddrive?

[rrfranczak3]

Try pressing CTRL+F11 at the Dell BIOS splash screen - this should boot the recovery image and allow you to restore back to factory settings which I am guessing is Windows 7 Starter

NOTE: This will ONLY work if you have not formatted your drive

[Locoboy2222]

Originally Posted by rrfranczak3

Try pressing CTRL+F11 at the Dell BIOS splash screen - this should boot the recovery image and allow you to restore back to factory settings which I am guessing is Windows 7 Starter

NOTE: This will ONLY work if you have not formatted your drive

What does that mean^ ive restored my computer once doing the fn + f8 before

---------- Post added at 04:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:01 AM ----------

Originally Posted by rrfranczak3

Try pressing CTRL+F11 at the Dell BIOS splash screen - this should boot the recovery image and allow you to restore back to factory settings which I am guessing is Windows 7 Starter

NOTE: This will ONLY work if you have not formatted your drive

I tried doing that and it just make the laptop beep.... How do i put the recovery disk onto a thumb drive and boot it from their?

[rrfranczak3]

well, if you did the fn+f8 before why cant you do it now?

you can also do this:

Download this utility.....I used it many times and hundreds (over 400 at last count) have also
link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/36803054...SB_0-2-3_2.exe

make sure 1st that you prep the USB drive..theres an option to format it (RMPrepUSB) on the 1st screen and make sure you check off the Win 7 then on the 2nd screen use the NTFS option on the left

1st screen


2nd screen


Good Luck....let me know if you need more help..........

Complete Instructions Here:
http://myeeeguides.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/winsetupfromusb-install-windows-xp-from-usb-flash-drive/