Actually, the place that I jumped in was after you suggested the F10 key and
ssb replied that he tried it and didn't get anything different.


"Hugh Candlin" wrote in message
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"PattyL" wrote in message
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Just thought that I'd mention that I tested holding the F10 key during
the
boot on the three systems we have here and on the laptop and one desktop,
there was no effect. The systems booted normally.

On the other desktop (an HP), it started the system recovery. Oops!
When
I
cancelled the system recovery, I did get a message to press the F1 to run
setup or F10 to run recovery.

So your theory that holding the F10 key should initiate the BIOS setup is
not valid on all systems.

The OP identified his computer as an Acer brand.
My research and response was predicated on that fact.

If you jumped into the middle of a thread and read a post
which contained advice to FORMAT C:, would you do it?