-- Posted by iBritt at 9:23 am on Nov. 11, 2008 So I put in a recovery disc, and it just keeps rebooting everything...help? I get this screen that says "Pri. Master disk HDD S.M.A.R.T" among other things, then the windows xp loading screen, then a blue screen, and then it reboots...it just keeps doing that -- Posted by jessikita89 at 9:24 am on Nov. 11, 2008 when u put a recovery disc n restart ur computer n look fast ur supposed to hit one of the F buttonz on ur keyboard thats how it is for me when i do it and den it gives u a few seconds to choose ur optionz. -- Posted by Dannay at 9:25 am on Nov. 11, 2008 Quote: from jessikita89 at 5:24 pm on Nov. 11, 2008 when u put a recovery disc n restart ur computer n look fast ur supposed to hit one of the F buttonz on ur keyboard thats how it is for me when i do it and den it gives u a few seconds to choose ur optionz. i thought it was F8? -- Posted by Lulu Nobody at 9:26 am on Nov. 11, 2008 Quote: from Dannay at 12:25 pm on Nov. 11, 2008 Quote: from jessikita89 at 5:24 pm on Nov. 11, 2008 when u put a recovery disc n restart ur computer n look fast ur supposed to hit one of the F buttonz on ur keyboard thats how it is for me when i do it and den it gives u a few seconds to choose ur optionz.   i thought it was F8? I think it's F8 too. But yeah, you have to press one of the F keys at a certain point so it doesn't do that. -- Posted by soldierofjustice3 at 11:01 am on Nov. 11, 2008 SMART is the HDD automatic diag system. If its failing, you might have a bad HDD. Your going to need to use some sort of diag tool to determine the status of your HDD. I recommend DFT. Google it, burn it to a disk and run it. Once you know the HDD is good, pound the F1-F12 keys durning start up and you'll get to your bios so you can change the boot order. -- Posted by espresso8097 at 11:18 am on Nov. 11, 2008 Quote: from soldierofjustice3 at 1:01 pm on Nov. 11, 2008 SMART is the HDD automatic diag system. If its failing, you might have a bad HDD. Your going to need to use some sort of diag tool to determine the status of your HDD. I recommend DFT. Google it, burn it to a disk and run it.   Once you know the HDD is good, pound the F1-F12 keys durning start up and you'll get to your bios so you can change the boot order. The BIOS on my old motherboard was Delete, not an F-key.  But is usually F2, with F12 being just boot order.