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If you have followed the advice under Backup and have made a System Recovery Disk you can fix your pc by using it to start your system.
It will restore the Windows system to the state it was in when you made the recovery disk. If you fix your system with the recovery disk any
changes to Windows that you have made since then may be forgotten and need to be repeated (e.g. new programs, Windows updates etc).
To be able to use the recovery disk you need to access your BIOS (motherboard settings) to tell it to look at the floppy drive first to start
Windows, instead of the harddrive. Most computers are already set up to detect a recovery disk in the floppy drive and will try to use it
(instead of your harddrive) to look for a Windows system it can boot up. If your computer doesn't try to read your floppy disk when you
switch it on you will need to tell the BIOS to do so. To open the BIOS menu, press the Delete key just after you switch your pc on.
Some motherboards may require a different key to be pressed to access their BIOS, it should say which key to press at the bottom of
the first screen that appears after you switch on. If your pc has cosmetic 'splash screens' just showing a logo instead of the first boot-up
screen try pressing F1 or F2. Hopefully this will cancel the splash screen and allow you to press Delete or show you which key to press.
Common keys used by motherboards to access the BIOS (or Setup) are Delete, F1, F2, F10, Ctrl+Alt+Esc, Ctrl+Alt+Enter, Ctrl+Alt+Del.
In the BIOS use the arrow keys to select Advanced CMOS Features, or Boot, and press Enter. Look for the setting for Boot Devices, or
Boot Order etc. If your Primary Boot Device is set to Harddrive 0 or 1 you will need to change it to Floppy Drive and set Secondary Boot Device
to Harddrive 0 or 1. On some motherboards you need to use the arrow keys to arrange your devices (Floppy, Cdrom, Harddrive, etc) into the order
in which you want them to boot up. For more info, try here or here. Save and Exit the BIOS when you have made your changes. Now the pc will
restart and read the floppy drive for the recovery disk information. You will be given the option to restore your previous configuration of Windows,
the pc will try to restart Windows. Make sure you remove the floppy disk once you have successfully restored Windows. In the future your pc
will look for an operating system on the floppy and if the drive is empty it will boot-up as normal using the harddrive.
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