Xp home will not boot

System will not boot, not even in safe mode! I can get to the system page but I do not know what to look for here. Can not get to SYSTEM RESTORE.

Anonymous Dec 08, 2007

system will not boot . i have to install windowsxp every time i turn on my pc . t boots up to the sreen showing icons and then shuts down and re boots over and over.

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Welll; it sounds to me like there are errors on your hard drive and to fix this problem you are going have to go to bios set the boot device for cdrom and put in the operating system disk it willl scan your harddrive first to see if there are any errors on it and then it will begin to copy the files that are needed and then once alll that is done it will restart your computer but if you have any floppy disks in you will have to take it out and then it will restart it will begin to scan what network devices are on your computer this will take awhile .. once everything is done like your browsing services,control panel,etc you should be finished at this point but you might have to setup your ethernet adapter

Posted on Sep 03, 2007

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