When the Dell logo appears, try pressing Ctrl-F11 or Alt-F11 at this screen, and if your system has the recovery partition, it should boot to it, and give you instructions on how to restore your system using this method. Shut down the computer completely, and restart it with the power button. You can attempt to recover the system using the built-in recovery partition (if your system has one). SOURCE: hi, I have lost the recovery cd for my dell inspiron 710 m
