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‎05-21-2017 12:29 PM

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I have an old Pavilion ze2000 and want to restore it to factory settings.  It had Windows XP Professional.  I do not have the start-up disks.  Can not find any option to do this.  Starting and hitting F11 does not work -  it just beeps at me as long as F11 is held down.

 

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‎05-21-2017 12:39 PM

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On XP machines it was usually F10 at power on. 

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‎05-21-2017 01:41 PM

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F10 gets me to the BIOS set up, which has nothing about recovery to factory settings (that I can find).

Probably pointless, anyway, since I have lost my wireless connection, and none of the "wizards" seem to know how to look for an existing wireless network.  *sigh*

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‎05-21-2017 02:08 PM

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Not sure if the ze2000 even has a Recovery partition. It may have only used Recovery Discs. Do you see another partition if you use Disk Management? Right click My Computer, select Manage. In the window that opens look in left sidebar for Disk Management.

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‎05-22-2017 05:55 AM

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When I do that I see only one partition listed, of type "Basic."  Guess I'm out of luck, then?

 

Well, it would be somewhat better if I could access wi-fi again. Any idea what I may have inadvertantly turned off to lose my wireless connection?  (oe should I start a new topic?)

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‎05-23-2017 12:13 AM

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Yes, start another thread in the networking section of forum-describe what happens with wireless:

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Wireless-and-Networking/bd-p/Internet

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