I have a Dell Dimension 3000 that was having major probs (I have a teenager on the internet...need I say more).  I was not aware of the CTRL + F11 option and out of sheer desperation reformatted my hd (which BTW I had replaced last year with a Dell M8727 80GB drive due to the original drive failing.).  Anyway, I was wondering if I could find the recovery stuff that would have been available in the CTRL + F11 feature on the net and then burn to disc, so I could restore my system.

 

I have the HP disks, but cannot boot to the CD ROM.  I have run bunches of tests and they all say the CD ROM is working.  I did not make any restore CDs (I know, I'm a dummy), so that option is not available. 

 

Any thoughts?  Many thanks....Cheers!