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Windows 7 will not boot and cannot boot from DVD drive
Hi:
My computer hard drive crashed a week ago and most of my back-ups went with the system. So, I got a new 500 GB drive and have been re-installing everything from scratch. I started with a clean install of Windows XP (service pack 2), which took forever to get all the up-dates done. Then I upgraded to Windows 7 and did the up-dates for that. I didn't make a recovery disk at this point because I wanted to get everything installed first.
Unfortunately, the last time I went to reboot it failed. When I power-up the computer it stalls out on the Dell BIOS screen. The F2 and F12 keys do not work. Also, I cannot boot into safe mode. In addition, I cannot get the machine to boot of the DVD drive; so, even if I wanted to, I could not start over at this point.
My machine is a Dell Inspiron 530.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.