Cant Access Windows Xp

[Rwalls]

Hi
A few weeks ago, I was having problems with a system crash. 10 times in 15 minutes in face and it drove me crazy. So, not thinking I just loaded up setup again on the Xp Pro disk. About 55% through setup, the system crashed. Now, whenever it is turned on again, setup just restarts.

How can I get back into windows..etc? I think in one of the startup options, there is mention about a rescue or recovery disk. Where can I get one of these?

Any help is appreciated.
thanks

[Confused]

Do you mean you are trying the repair option. If not, to repair, change boot sequence to CD and boot up with XP CD in drive. When given do not do "repair console" but to load XP.

Takes about 40 minutes and you will loose SP1 and any downloaded patches.

I have ran it a couple times and did not loose any data or applications but did have to reload SP1 and all the patches.
Chas

[ktkendall]

Just a hunch, but it sounds hardware related,( ie. bad ram), or heat related problem.

[Cricket]

What are your complete system specs...make and model of all the parts in your computer, especially the power supply, video card and RAM.

:) Cricket

[Rwalls]

Confused - Could you tell me how to do this? And...what exactly is SP1?

The thing is, I have an idea it's the graphics card Nvidia geforce2 100/200, so I should get it replaced. Until then however, I need to get my stuff of the computer. There's a huge music collection and also a lot of photographs from my travels. I'd really hate to lose it.

[ktkendall]

Originally posted by Rwalls
Confused - Could you tell me how to do this? And...what exactly is SP1?

The thing is, I have an idea it's the graphics card Nvidia geforce2 100/200, so I should get it replaced. Until then however, I need to get my stuff of the computer. There's a huge music collection and also a lot of photographs from my travels. I'd really hate to lose it.
SP1 is service pack 1, which you may or may not have downloaded and installed, it comes from doing the windows updates::
Just a piece of good advice especially for those photographs:
Burn them to CD if you really want to keep them. When we went digital for our picture taking, I told my wife there is no use getting a digital camera unless we get a cd burner cause storing pictures on the harddrive only will guarantee that you will eventually loose them someday. Pretty good tactic of me to get wifey to approve a cd burner HUH??? This was quite awhile back too when 1megapixel camera went for 250 and 4/4/24 burner was 200, but I was happy to go on a BestBuy spree and I do store up the pictures and burn them to cd just to ensure not loosing them. Zip drive or other removable media would probably be good too...
Set your BIOS to boot from CD, and boot up from the winxp CD, and keep going just like your going to do a new installation, and at some point it will give you the option to repair the existing installation, choose that and let it do it's thing...

[Rwalls]

I'l gonna give this a go later toinight. Tho, the thing is, i've tried restarting the computer a few times and it always crashes at a certain point during the setup