![]() ![]() ![]() (Just to be safe I had made Ghost images of the all hard drive partitions before hand so I could restore them to their sickly state if needed.) Fortunately I had created an extra partition on the hard drive when I first got the machine and put all my work on the non-OS partition (D: drive), and none of that partition was affected during the restore operation. It does wipe every thing out on the C: drive to be like it was when new. This loaded the system partition (C:) from the recovery partition (hidden). What they had written for getting the Recovery Manager was not correct.Īfter the initial boot screen (with " for boot menu" at the bottem) disappeared I pressed Alt-F10 and after a minute got a "Gateway Recovery Management" screen with a "Restore from factory default" option. This tip was not in my Gateway starter guide. I had tried a lot of different things F8 and Repair your computer, Repair Startup problems, downloaded a Rocovery CD, etc., and nothing seemed to work until this method. My compurter started to reset in the middle of the boot processs. A lot of useless searching (much of it a Gateway) and finally came up with that useful tip. ![]() "Hurray! Shouts out to Frys Guy!!!!! I got my Gateway back running after using his Alt-F10 tip. ![]()
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