Quote Originally Posted by Dragon1911 View Post
Yes you hit one of the F* buttons on the startup screen which takes you to the boot menu and from there you have to re partition your hard drive and re install the operating system. Im not a techy or anything so i dont know the specifics as dell walked me through my issue.

f8 or f9 usually

are you still having issues ?

if you download a ubuntu Linux LIVE cd you can boot form that and save your data . http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

then we can reformat your hard drive if you want .