Dell PC with Vista does not restart

I am only able to see the black screen with DELL in the Center. The F2 and F12 keys do not work. I've pressed CTRL11 but nothing works. The disk drive does not work so I can't use a recovery disk.

Do I have any options?

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Hello

Diagnose what the problem with your computer using the Dell and another keyboard methods

Here are the options of relocation:

How ro reinstall from the Dell recovery partition:

http://www.Dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/04/KCS/KcsArticles/ArticleView?c=us&l=en&s=BSD&docid=DSN_336966

Reinstalling the printer Dell supplied disk:

http://www.Dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/19/KCS/KcsArticles/ArticleView?c=us&l=en&s=DHS&docid=DSN_339949

And I hope that these links should provide an explanation for all of your problems:

Reference Dell troubleshooting with startup problems:

http://www.Dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/19/KCS/KcsArticles/ArticleView?c=us&l=en&s=DHS&docid=DSN_343119

Run the built-in diagnostic software:

http://www.Dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/04/KCS/KcsArticles/ArticleView?c=us&l=en&s=BSD&docid=266787

And if this does not resolve your problem, please contact Dell:

http://www.Dell.com/support/contents/us/en/19/category/contact-information

Or you could ask their Support Forums:

http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/default.aspx

See you soon.

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