I had the same issue. Here's what I did. Not sure if it will work for you. But give it a try.
1) turn on the machine and press "F2" to go into set up.
2) Press alt-p seven times to go to the last page.
3)Press the down arrow to highlight HDD password. Set a password as instructed and reboot the machine.
4) You can remove this password later once your machine starts fine.
Even if you didn't get try this too.
1. Make bootable CD which contains Norton Ghost or other disk image
software
2. Boot your system using bootable CD with Norton Ghost software, u can
use Hiren's CD ISO image. If u don't know about hiren just google it.
2. Once you boot up , open Norton Ghost click LOCAL-> PARTITION->FROM IMAGE
3. Now "look in" for "[DellRestore]FAT drive" and select this drive (this is recovery partition)
4. Now go to "IMG" folder and select FI.GHO file
5. Click Open and there you go... Process started
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