boot from hidden partition? Gateway

Rings890 · Post by **Rings890** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:59 am

Hi everyone, I wasn't sure where to put this post so mods can move it to the appropriate location if this is wrong.

I have a gateway laptop P7811FX, I am trying to figure out how to boot from the hidden partition so that I can do a factory original restore. The documentation on Gateways site and the manual that came with it say to press Alt+F10 and then select from the menue. That key combo only brings up the boot option menu (Hard drive (boots into Vista), DVD, or Network. Does anyone know the magic key?

Thanks for the help.

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:42 am

Compaq crap

Buy it, format it, never partion a HD more thsn one, it's faster.

Recover?, backup=ALT/F/A

A=save as

Rings890 · Post by **Rings890** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:06 pm

Mad_Haggis wrote: Buy it, format it, never partion a HD more thsn one, it's faster.

That is my plan later, right now there is no driver support for some of the stuff, and of course they do not supply a driver disk with the system, just the recovory disk, the disk assumes you have made some kind of back up DVD and wants that disk now. I didnt make one (screw up on my part, guess I should have read the manual).

No luck with that atl+f+a

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 2:59 am

Rings890 wrote:That is my plan later, right now there is no driver support for some of the stuff, and of course they do not supply a driver disk with the system, just the recovory disk, the disk assumes you have made some kind of back up DVD and wants that disk now. I didnt make one (screw up on my part, guess I should have read the manual).

No luck with that atl+f+a

Buy a 3 dollar network card?, to upload the world?

If you have the mobo disk, ie. using onboard network. That works great as well?

Providing you have the internet ready?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:24 am

alt - F12, or F2 maybe.