Remember F10
Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Wy
(602 messages posted)
A while back I posted a problem I had with my XP. Simply put, it just shut down
and everytime I tried to get it running again, it wouldn't get me past the options
page that gave me the choices for safe mode, last known good configuration, etc.
No matter what option I chose, even managing to run chkdsk in the hope that it would
get it going after fixing whatever it's supposed to fix, it still would return to
that options page and go no further.
Recently, I happened upon some info elsewhere about F10. I recalled the F10 option
but had completely forgot about it, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I started up
the computer and just as it was loading, I kept pressing F10 until voila! I now
got the choice to recover my system either by reformatting the hard drive or selecting
the non-destructive recovery [not reformatting the hard drive, but losing some installed
programs' functions]. I chose the latter and seemingly an hour later I was successfully
up and running again like nothing had ever happened. Only a few programs I've had
to reinstall, but everything else, including my documents, music, videos, pics, all
the stuff that really mattered, was still there.
So the moral of the story is: when all else fails, remember F10. Whether this would
work for all computers with XP or not, beats me, but it's certainly worth a last-ditch
shot.
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