"Is there a recovery partition?"
Disc Management will tell you. It can look at the disk. We can't.
http://www.google.com/search?q=xp+disc+management will tell you all you need (and more) on the first page.
"I hit F10"
Why F10? Is that in some instruction or manual? You didn't tell.
Kees
is there a recovery partition on this pc,when it boots i hit F10 but it doesn't do anything

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