I made some recovery discs, when I load them up, it comes up to a window that asks to restart or shutdown. I restart the computer and all I get is a black screen with the cursor in the upper left hand corner. I have tried every key on the keyboard and nothing happens. What should I try to do?

Tryf1 f10 or f12 when computor comes up compac it tells key for complete recovery at bottom of screen.

How do I get my keyboard to stop putting letters and numbers togather when I am trying to log in

What I have to do to get this to stop

How do I completely wipe everything off my laptop and restart it now it won't even let me log on.
I want to start it all over

My compaq presario 1200 has went crazy it won't even let me log on, I don't know what to do.
So how do wipe everything off this beast and start it over with my own pass word and all, it won't let me do nothing, please HELP ME!!

Please help me to get in this thing, I got this laptop from someone else so I changed the password , now it won't let me log on.
What do I have to do to log on ? And how do I completely wipe the hard drive clean and start over with a new name and password?

Recovery Disks are supposed to be self-booting. Put the disks in the drive and turn on the computer.

You might have to press F10 or F2 or something to get into the BIOS and make sure the BOOT ORDER includes an option to boot from the CD.

If this doesn't work, have someone check your recovery disks or make a second set to try again. Can you list here where you made the recovery disks from?