Dell Dimension E510 system recovery

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    I have this Dell Dimension E510 and it has a trojan virus on it and my norton's not doing it's job. i was wonderin if anyone knows how i could get into to system recovery portion of the hard drive without callin dell because they want to charge for everything. and help will be appriciated. Thanks
     
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    when computer is posting before going into windows, does it give you the option of system recovery?
     
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    nope it tell gives you the opion of bios setup and startup setup.
     
    ILL-C, Oct 20, 2006
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    startup setup as in safemode, normal & whatever?
     
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    yeah
     
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    what does the user manual say & do you have a floppy drive?
     
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    i don't have a user's manual because i'm trying to fix it for my classmate and she's type that doesn't know to keep all thing that come with the stuff. nor does it have a floppy drive.
     
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    see if can get the asset # in the post screen or in the bios so i can hopefully link you to a manual
     
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    I'm good now. I found that the way to get to system recovery is hold Ctrl and press F11 on startup.
     
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    teach & learn
     
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