Gateway M Series won't boot to password screen, just to a blank screen with blinking cursor

[YazOrfa]

Hello there,
I've gotten a Gateway m Series laptop that was just collecting dust in my house and I used it perfectly until I accidentally used a 7Zip file and had "Use this for all files like this" then all my icons turned to 7Zip ones. By then it was obvious that I had to factory reset (I'd forgotten you can factory reset with the computer being on, too late for that now) but when I attempted it just to gateway logo then booted a blank screen with a blinking cursor and goes no further, I tried using the F8 but it does nothing, I know the PhoenixBios password. When I try boot sequence there's no HDD option just "DVD, Boot Main, and Boot To LAN."
Please provide any help you can.
Thank you!

 

[Laptop_Nerd]

Hi,

It seems like that the built in recovery partition has been corrupted already. The only way to solve the problem is to run a System Recovery disc. You can either order from Gateway a recovery disc so you could run and fix the issue.

Here's also a support link that you can use:
https/neosmart.net/wiki/gateway-recovery-disk/