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adding to old question please help

Sep 19, 2015 9:03PM PDT

trying to get my old dell working it has a 3.00ghz cpu 2.0 gb ram. I turned it on and get a message telling me to hit f2 to enter setup so i do that but once there I have no idea what to do next? someone please help or tell me where to go to get help?thanks after some playing I found that I would need a boot disk or recovery disk?How I came up with this is that I tried to boot off a windows 8 recovery disk it started to read the disk then came with a message that said unable to use media.

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