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You may not need to have recovery discs to perform a System Recovery. The recovery information is contained on a partition on the hard drive. Recovery discs are necessary in case the recovery partition is not functioning properly. If your computer originally came with Windows 7 or Vista, turn on the computer and repeatedly press F11
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When you start up your computer. Push F8 to get to the boot menu. Select "Enable VGA mode". Well, that's what most computers say. You'rs might be different but will be something like VGA mode, basic/reduced graphics mode, or something like that.
See if you can get into windows using that.
When you're booting up the computer the post screen and windows loading screen use a very limited section of the video card. This "VGA mode" is used as a compatibility mode so that before you load the video card drivers you can still see the screen to get the drivers loaded. Once windows gets past the loading screen it then begins to use the installed graphics drivers and the video card starts using an entirely different chipset on the card.