Mark - Thanks a million for taking the time and having the smarts to explain! That makes perfect sense. And as I suspected, neither problem is...
Hmm, hadn't thought to try that. I will tonight. Other bootable CDs did successfully boot in her computer, though.
I did go home last night and did a "Burn Image", but I still couldn't boot from the resulting CD. My understanding is that it was supposed to be...
Sounds likely. Thanks very much for the tips. As it turned out, my wife got on the phone with Dell (she has paid for lots of support, so we...
Ah, Thanks. I know exactly which F8 menu you're talking about, and my understanding is that menu is displayed by Windows during Windows startup....
I just burned to the CD the .exe file he sent me. I figured there was something special I had to do in Nero to make it bootable, just didn't know...
Brian - Yes, I believe there is one. It's called Recovery I think. I don't know what it is or how to use it, but calling Dell was going to be...
Your help is kindly requested with a very basic problem. My wife just bought a brand-new expensive Dell with Vista Ultimate. The machine...
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