My aunts PC isn't booting up. Heres the problem. It has XP home on it and I put the upgrade disk for vista ultimate on it. Not thinking... I tried to upgrade by rebooting the system and installing it that way... duh.... it doesn't work. So now I have a problem... because XP won't boot up. And of course there is no vista. What it does when i start the computer up is boot up normal the setup screen goes by and everything and then xp comes on with the bar meaning its loading... after it loads... the screen turns black and restarts. Does the same thing for safe mode as well... restarts after it attempts to load. It is very important that all the files are still there and they are at this point but how can I get xp to boot right without restarting without losing files... or at least create backups at this point?
PC Help!!!
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reinstall xp http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341/
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install the HD in a working machine as a slave and back up the files
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install the HD in a working machine as a slave and back up the files
my aunt and uncle hired a technician to come to the house. He was doing something with it... maybe something with the master boot record and he had his laptop hooked up to it. I would like to learn what he did, but I really don't know. Does anybody have any ideas as to how to how to hook up the computer to a laptop and look over things on the master boot?
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why did he connect via ethernet if you couldn't even boot up. Isn't networking disabled before then?
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