Major Laptop Problem

[embow]

so what does the password rest disc do as in post 12?
should be easy.

dx

Many thanks to all for taking an interest in this plea for help. Your suggestions /instructions are very much appreciated.
I cannot get a disc to work in any of the safe modes nor can I find the BIOS to allow me to boot up from a CD. All I am able to do is outlined in post 16.
If I restore to factory default, which I am happy to do, I then have the horror of having a partitioned hard drive again. I was able to get someone before to increase the C drive to almost the full capacity leaving only a small D drive.
Any thoughts on how this can be done please or is it a job for a computer specialist? Partitioned hard drives are a total pain in my book. The current old laptop which I'm using has 34 GB C drive and 76GB D Data drive! Needless to say the C drive is at full capacity bar 1.5 GB.despite clearing as much out as possible that's not really needed.

[dx100uk]

all easily done in disc management
right click my computer/properties/manage

cant see why you keep having to fill the C: drive

just save all your stuff to the D: Drive

basic stuff really.

if you are near wick i'll do it.

stick that disc in

You will see a message, "Press any key to boot from CD". Press a key

dx

[Vistravi]

Are you near or in thurso?

My partner, his dad and one of my best friends are all computer geniuses!
Between the three of them there isn't much left not known lol.

[embow]

Many thanks everyone. Problem solved. Eventually got into Boot screen after finding that f12 button had been disabled! Tried booting up from discs suggested but got nowhere. Checked through all external hard drives carefully and discovered in fact very little, by way of work, was missing as I'd saved at start of October. Decided to restore to facotry default and go again. Some e-mails lost but nothing critical.
Once again many thanks for all interest and suggestions of help.