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Can't recover my Dell laptop
Recently my Dell 1558 laptop started to act up so I decided to try formatting it using the recovery partition on it, the problem is that the bios has a password on it that I don't know. I think it was from the previous owner because I bought it refurbished.
I can't seem to run it from the recovery partition using the boot options. When I try to boot from the hard drive it just enters my operating system. I also tried booting from a Windows 7 cd, but it just sits at a black screen and then says bootmgr missing
I noticed my hard drive had a plus sign next to it in the boot options, does this mean I can expand it to choose which partition to boot? If so, how?