Please do not submit the same issue more than once within 24 hours. Do everything you can to reduce the effort of the wonderful folks offering to help you.Īfter solving your problem, please mark it as solved by clicking 'flair' and confirming the 'solved' tag. State everything you have tried and all the guides/tutorials/sites you have followed as well as why they were unsuccessful.
Try to research your issue before posting, don't be vague. The subreddit is only for support with tech issues. Please include your system specs, such as Windows/Linux/Mac version/build, model numbers, troubleshooting steps, symptoms, etc. Live Chat ~Enter Discord~ Submission Guidelines (Note: contrary to urban legend, it's okay to press the keys more than once.Check out our Knowledge Base, all guides are compiled by our Trusted Techs. Hold down the Ctrl key, press down the F11 key, then release both keys together. You must press Ctrl+F11 after the F2/F12 prompts appear, and before the end of the 2-second blue-line pause. After POST completes, you'll see the 2-second pause with the blue-line, followed by the XP splash screen. When the POST phase starts, you'll see the blue Dell logo, there will be a brief delay, then the "F2" and "F12" prompts will appear in the corner of the screen. (3) If the answer is yes to both, then make sure you're pressing Ctrl+F11 at the right time. This screen should appear for 2 seconds between the POST phase (Power-On Self Test, with the giant blue Dell logo) and the XP splash screen (when XP starts to boot). The telltale sign of the Dell MBR is a black screen with a single blue line at the top, with "in white-on-blue letters. (2) Do you have a Dell MBR? This is easily overwritten, so even if your system shipped with the Dell MBR, it might not necessarily still have it. If you see an "unknown" partition of about 3-5 GB at the end of the disk with no drive letter, that suggests your DSR partition is still there. (1) Are you sure you have a DSR (PC Restore) partition? When you boot into XP, take a look in Disk Management (Start>Run>"diskmgmt.msc") and look at the schematic "map" of Disk 0.
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